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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Beauty Quotes,
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly
and awfully impressed with an idea that they read more

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly
and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and
that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the
one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Public trust Quotes,
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Obstinacy Quotes,
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
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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.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Judges Quotes,
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this read more

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.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Justice Quotes,
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