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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.

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKE

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

Flatter Generosity Receive
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression

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.

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