It is one of the finest problems in legislation, what the state ought to take upon itself to direct and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion
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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.Edmund Burke
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Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any other sort of employment whatsoever.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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