All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
– Edmund Burke
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- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke
- 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
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. – Edmund Burke
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. – Edmund Burke
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke
- The march of the human mind is slow. – Edmund Burke
- Gaming is a principle inherent in human nature. – Edmund Burke
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke