Edmund Burke Quotes
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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 by the crooked cord of discretion.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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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 - the law of nature and of nations.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
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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.