All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — 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
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
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
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
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… — 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
