Edmund Burke Quotes About Humanity
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
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All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.
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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.
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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
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