Edmund Burke Quotes about Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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