Quote by Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion. – Wendell Phillips

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It is easier to commit murder than to justify it. – Aemilius Papinianus

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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