Edmund Burke Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Equality, Law

  Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

• All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Judging

  "The Works of Edmund Burke, with a Memoir".

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Justice, Trade, Free Trade

  "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" by Edmund Burke, 1795.

• 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

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.230

• A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Investing

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

• 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

  Law, Justice, Humanity

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

• It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

  Edmund Burke

  Drawing, Ideas, People

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

• All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Government, Giving

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

  Edmund Burke

  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.386

• Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Discipline, Justice, Example

• It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

  Edmund Burke

  Doctors, Law, Justice

  Edmund Burke, Ian Harris (1993). “Pre-Revolutionary Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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