It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
