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Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.
Edmund Burke -
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
Edmund Burke
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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
Edmund Burke -
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke -
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke -
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Edmund Burke -
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Edmund Burke -
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke
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By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Edmund Burke -
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Edmund Burke -
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Edmund Burke