Quote by Edmund Burke
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke

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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. – Lenny Bruce

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honoré de Balzac

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

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A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost

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If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher. – Jonathan Sacks

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