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Legal Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being…
- There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity…
- People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and…
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