But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Burke - Page 146by John Morley - 1879 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...identified with justice, must be infinitely dear to every man, who is capable of conceiving what it is. But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. I do not believe that men ever did submit, certain I am that they never ought to have submitted, to... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...identified with justice, must be infinitely dear to every man, who is capable of conceiving what it is. But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. I do not believe that men ever did submit, certain I am that they never ought to have submitted, to... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - France - 1844 - 684 pages
...but another name for justice, ascertained by wise laws, and secured by well-constructed institutions. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. I do not believe that men ever did submit, certain I am that they never ought to have submitted, to... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 678 pages
...identified with justice, must be infinitely dear to every one who is capable of conceiving what it is. But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. I do not believe that men ever did submit, certain I am that they never ought to have submitted, to... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 pages
...Memorials of Fox, vol. ii. p. 361 . It is our inheritance. It is the birth-right of our species. But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is in my opinion safe." • This divergence of opinion was not long confined to private letters. It broke forth publicly in... | |
| François Guizot - Great Britain - 1876 - 568 pages
...or the acquisition of our industry. It is our inheritance. It is the birthright of our species. But whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe." Some weeks later, at the opening of Parliament, Burke was led by the ardor of his convictions into... | |
| Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...Constitution were safe till the day of judgment. Burke wrote to a French gentleman, October, 1789, " Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe ; " and in a letter to a member of the National Assembly, 1791, "Men are as much blinded by the extremes... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...under the suspicion of being no policy at all. 2892 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. 2893 Burke : Letter, October, 1789. To a French. Gentleman. The great soul of this world Is just. 2894... | |
| Nicholas Paine Gilman - Conduct of life - 1891 - 418 pages
...Political Ideas, are three good books to start with ; see the notes to Chapter XII. of this volume. " Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe." — EDMUND BURKE. CHAPTER II. OBEDIENCE TO MORAL LAW. How do we obey what we call a physical or natural... | |
| 1896 - 418 pages
...Political Ideas, are three good books to start with ; see the notes to Chapter XII. of this volume. " Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe." — EDMUND BUBEE. CHAPTER II. OBEDIENCE TO MOBAL LAW. How do we obey what we call a physical or natural... | |
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