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Quotes from Preface to Brissot's Address — Edmund Burke

1729–1797 Ireland

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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Preface to Brissot's Address (1794)

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Preface to Brissot's Address (1794)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Burke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.