16 Edmund Burke Quotes on Justice

Edmund Burke quotes on justice

12. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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

21. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

30. The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

44. 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?

54. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

73. 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.

74. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

97. 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.

98. There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'

125. 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.

127. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

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

158. If we have equity, wisdom, and justice, it will belong to this country; if we have it not, it will not belong to this country.

170. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.