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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund Burke
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
Edmund Burke
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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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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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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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.
Edmund Burke
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I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke -
By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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Illustrious predecessor.
Edmund Burke -
I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
Edmund Burke
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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.
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke -
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Edmund Burke -
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
Edmund Burke