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.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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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.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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