Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke
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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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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot
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