Edmund Burke Quotes on Judgment
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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It has always been with me, a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a great man.