5 Edmund Burke Quotes on Judgment

Edmund Burke quotes on judgment

8. 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.

29. 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.

92. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

121. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

171. 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.