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Quote by Edmund Burke
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ide

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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – 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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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1 – Bible

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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. – John Bunyan

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. – Linda Blandford

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Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future. – Angela Merkel

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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. – Stephen King

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Your body is a flower that life let bloom…. – Ilchi Lee

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If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy. – Dean Norris

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