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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to… — 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 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
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
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
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
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
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 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
“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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the… — 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 of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
