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

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke , Statesman
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Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, philosopher, and political theorist. He is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism and was known for his influential writings on political and social issues during the 18th century.

Edmund Burke Quotes to Explore

Good order is the foundation of all things....
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair....
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!...
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people....
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men....
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle....
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing....
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls....
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 ho...
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent....

Legal Quotes to Explore

When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something...
I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and ha...
Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse....
Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father...
I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an extent, I had been ma...
Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I wi...
Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled....
Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their...
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious....
I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year....