6 Edmund Burke Quotes on Rights

Edmund Burke quotes on rights

17. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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

19. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

72. In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]...This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

84. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

146. Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.