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Edmund Burke Quotes

«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 no policy at all.»
«Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing»
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
«He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.»
«The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity»
«There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Passion | Keywords: boundary
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
«Facts are to the mind what food is to the body»
«It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: lawyer
«The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.»

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