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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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… — 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
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as… — 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
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — 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
