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

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

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. – Edison Haines

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. – David Dudley Field

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Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess

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