There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, t…

“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 · Nature

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Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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