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Judging Quotes by Edmund Burke
- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not…
- If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they,…
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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- I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? — Douglas Adams
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- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
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