In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.


Alafair Burke

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE
The judge instructs the jury to judge the case on the basis of the law. A jury swears on an oath to ...
GENE KNIZE
The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
JOHN JAY
The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy
JOHN GAY
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercis...
LYSANDER SPOONER
I respect the jury system. I respect the jury process. I strongly disagree with the verdict.
BRUCE BARKET
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
JOHN JAY
Unlike most notes, it did not say, 'Do not surrender your convictions just to reach a verdict,' ... ...
DAVID BARRON
The jury spoke, we had a verdict, and the verdict was clear,
BRYAN SIERRA
They want a jury that can say, 'I've heard about this case, but I can set aside what I've heard, fol...
BILL COATES
I don't want to do anything to the jury. I just want to make sure that they deliberate consistent wi...
BRADLEY E. LERMAN
As to the decision, the verdict of the jury could not be more clear. The jury has said these men are...
ABBE LOWELL
We certainly don't agree with this particular verdict. The verdict was not based on all the availabl...
BETH HARBIN
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n...
HARPER LEE
I want a jury verdict.
LARRY SALCI
In the public imagery, jury trials are very emblematic to people of what the law is.
MARC GALANTER
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection t...
LYSANDER SPOONER
The court finds that it is necessary to grant (Moody) a new trial because it finds the jury miscondu...
SUSAN ROBERTS
We're very disturbed the jury issued this verdict. We think there were a lot of errors in the trial.
SANDRA BENSON
By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case.
ED ADAMS
By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible penalty in this case.
EDWARD ADAMS
It is taking the jury to a memorial service, taking the jury to a funeral.
DAVID BAUGH
These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take int...
BRIAN WICE
I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand j...
JOHN CORNYN
We believe we should take the dispute back to the WTO. We would like to see a rule of law rather tha...
LEE GREENBAUM
Jurors are locked in the jury room without a lawyer, and they are expected to master one of the most...
JIM HAMMER
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a bu...
MARK MCKINNON
The defense knows that at some point this jury is likely to consider the death penalty. It would be ...
JOE RUSSONIELLO
The American people are entitled to the facts. The grand jury is entitled to the facts. That is our ...
CHARLES BAKALY
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here wh...
FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN
We think this is going to a jury.
CHARLES BAKER
It's tough to get a fair jury. However, we have a system to do that.
BYRON WARNKEN
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY
This grand jury is done. They referred it over to the next grand jury for some further investigation...
EDDIE MONTGOMERY
If important documents are stored in a carton that is inaccurately coded and, therefore, can't be fo...
JAMES RHYNER
My worst fears from jury selection manifested themselves in the verdict. This jury needed someone to...
JEFF ASHTON
Obviously, the City cried 'uncle' on this one. You don't agree to pay out six figures and admit that...
ROB FRANKE
We have a jury of professionals in the arts field. When someone wants to participate in our shows, t...
NICOLE SPENCER
It was just a matter to get the jury to see all the facts.
GEOFFREY HARPER
In terms of he's an officer of the law [and] he failed to attend jury duty, you'd have to check with...
PAUL LORIQUET
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and ...
E. B. WHITE
I believe a case should not be tried in the news media, that a case should be tried - any case shoul...
FREDA BLACK
The jury is going to carry the baggage of what happened in October back there (the jury room) with t...
JONATHAN SHAPIRO
From the standpoint of Ben, obviously Ben did what he did ... but we believe there were errors in bo...
JAMES BURKE
The simple truth, the reality of the jury verdict has not changed.
JAMES SPENCER
Most of the motions filed by the defendants are an attempt to delay getting the facts before a jury.
LOUIS FRANKLIN
We are very pleased that, after six months of Toshiba's efforts to challenge the jury verdict, the C...
ERIC WHITAKER
The stocks have taken a hit over the last couple of days. Once [plaintiff's attorney Stanley] Rosenb...
BILL PECORIELLO
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...
LYSANDER SPOONER
No jury can undo the outcome of Texas' 2002 elections, but the justice system must punish those who ...
CRAIG MCDONALD
I think it was very fair based upon the facts and the evidence the jury heard,
RICHARD ALPERT
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL
There are no limits as to the possibilities that we will ask for and certainly the term grand jury f...
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means t...
ROBERT SHAPIRO
The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.
BRIAN SPELLMAN
The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN
The jury selection system in this District has a history of substantially under-representing African...
ART LEACH
Pro Car Auto Group and Atlantic Financial are disappointed in the verdict made in the Steubenville M...
BOB BOWMAN
We are going to be the first case to present that study to the jury.
JOE ESCOBEDO
A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fac...
WILLIAM LANDAY
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
That's up to a jury.
FERRIS WEBBY
the facts do lend support to the conviction and the findings of the jury, but there's still informat...
GERALD GARRETT
I believe in the jury system. I think they did what was right in this case.
JACK QUATMAN
The bottom line is, different jury, different city, different facts,
JACOB FRENKEL
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the govern...
LYSANDER SPOONER
This is not going to be something where a jury sits down in a jury box with a clean slate, listens t...
MARVIN MILLER
The jury obviously, to some extent, believed the arguments that we made,
DAVID PARRY
The jury saw the posters for what they are -- a hit list for terrorists.
GLORIA FELDT
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death pena...
BYRON R. WHITE
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...
HARPER LEE
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting att...
LUTHER BURBANK
We were very pleased with the jury's verdict and after talking to the jury we were even more pleased...
ANDREW WHITE
As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury ...
MARCIA CLARK
From the moment I saw that jury, I didn't believe that we had a snowball's chance in hell of convict...
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN
The jury could have very easily punted this back to the judge and not dealt with it. But I think thi...
KEITH HENDERSON
It won't escape the jury that this guy is not all there. I'm not sure that makes a huge difference i...
LAURIE LEVENSON
I moved for a mistrial based upon his demonstration in front of the jury, ... It's highly prejudicia...
BOB STEWART
I moved for a mistrial based upon his demonstration in front of the jury. It's highly prejudicial.
BOB STEWART
The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that...
DONNA BRAZILE
If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT
We only asked the jury for $339,000 in our closing argument; they gave us three times more.
GEOFFREY HARPER
Obviously, we interpret this news as corroboration of Linda's testimony before the grand jury.
MONICA LEWINSKY
This jury was out to lunch,
CURTIS SLIWA
The judge and jury is the role we need to play.
BENNIE SHELLY
The decision of competency is not one for a jury to decide, but for a judge to decide.
CRAIG HEDRIC
No jury can undo the outcome of Texas' 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those ...
CRAIG MCDONALD
It's disappointing when a jury comes back 11-1 to acquit and then a different jury hears the same ev...
JENNIFER HANSON
This trial was not about putting a monetary value on Randy Moon's life. It was about closure for the...
HARRY HALL
It conveyed a message to the jury that this is an especially dangerous person.
BARRY FELD
It took three years for this to get to trial, the trial took two weeks and the jury turned in the ve...
CHRISTOPHER OPALINSKI
We are disappointed that the jury didn't see it our way, but Starr County is a very difficult jurisd...
RICHARD JOSEPHSON
A jury from this community ... had formed a judgment that the defendant deserved to die.
MARK OLIVE
We are very, very pleased the jury was able to see through this insanity defense, ... It was a stack...
KATHY ROBERTS
Yes, I'm glad this part is over. I think the jury had a hard thing to do. I think the jury did a dar...
ROSEMARY DILLARD
As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille...
IRA SORKIN

More Alafair Burke

Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked...
ALAFAIR BURKE
According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. Mo...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I&#...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with...
ALAFAIR BURKE
I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all t...
ALAFAIR BURKE
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids...
ALAFAIR BURKE
There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
ALAFAIR BURKE
I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could c...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families co...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Jesse James's next tattoo should be a warning label: Danger. Loving this man could break you.
ALAFAIR BURKE
Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series ...
ALAFAIR BURKE
I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal ...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequ...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love...
ALAFAIR BURKE
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is ha...
ALAFAIR BURKE
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE
I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black...
DELTA BURKE
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE
This is just going to be a different year because of the rain. Now it's going to be a matter of keep...
ALANE BURKE
We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, s...
ALANE BURKE
The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
ALANE BURKE
I definitely think we can make playoffs. We're starting to really click and look strong. We have a c...
ALANE BURKE
Not only does Sarah have great physical and technical skills for the game, but she also has a great ...
ALANE BURKE
She had been hoping to play stopper her senior year and now she is. She earned that position. She's ...
ALANE BURKE
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
DELTA BURKE
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE
The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
DELTA BURKE
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transit...
DELTA BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I...
SUZIE BURKE
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE
Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to ...
JAMES BURKE
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat...
EDMUND BURKE
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
EDMUND BURKE
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
EDMUND BURKE
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
EDMUND BURKE
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existi...
EDMUND BURKE
Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
EDMUND BURKE
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
EDMUND BURKE
Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superio...
EDMUND BURKE
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems...
EDMUND BURKE
I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maint...
EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these ...
EDMUND BURKE
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the p...
EDMUND BURKE
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but...
EDMUND BURKE
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the m...
EDMUND BURKE
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
EDMUND BURKE
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
EDMUND BURKE
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
EDMUND BURKE
Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...
EDMUND BURKE
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell ...
EDMUND BURKE
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EDMUND BURKE
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
EDMUND BURKE
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
EDMUND BURKE
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE
Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
BILLIE BURKE
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
BILLIE BURKE
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE
Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
EDMUND BURKE
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
JAMES BURKE
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the w...
JAMES BURKE
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
EDMUND BURKE
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
EDMUND BURKE
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much ...
EDMUND BURKE
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE
Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
JAMES BURKE
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
MICHAEL BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE