Quote #18

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

More from Edmund Burke

  1. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  2. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
  3. The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when…
  4. You can never plan the future by the past.
  5. He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
  6. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
  7. Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordina…
  8. Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can wi…

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