Justice Quotes by Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

— Edmund Burke

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

— Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

— Edmund Burke

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

— Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance…

— Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that…

— Edmund Burke

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

— Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to…

— Edmund Burke

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

— Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes…

— Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

— Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of…

— Edmund Burke

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part…

— Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the…

— Edmund Burke

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.…

— Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves…

— Edmund Burke

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of…

— Edmund Burke

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the…

— Edmund Burke

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules…

— Edmund Burke

“In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can…

— Edmund Burke

“Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power…

— Edmund Burke