Law Quotes by Edmund Burke

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

— Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

— Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

— Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer…

— Edmund Burke

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though…

— Edmund Burke

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

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse…

— Edmund Burke

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

— 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

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

— 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

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his…

— Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and…

— Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to…

— Edmund Burke

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

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were…

— Edmund Burke

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine…

— 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

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up…

— Edmund Burke

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by…

— Edmund Burke

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,…

— 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

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as…

— Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

— Edmund Burke