Quote by Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all la

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – 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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good
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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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Justice
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Every corny thing thats said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true. – Susan Orlean

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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

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The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. – Samuel Wilson

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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Men

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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