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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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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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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. – Edmund Burke

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

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There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court. – Clarence Darrow, 1936

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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