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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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