Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burkewas an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliamentfor many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 January 1729
CountryIreland
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Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity
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It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security
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A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.