Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one
Edmund Burke
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of Both the character they leave and of the character they Assume.
Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Edmund Burke
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