Edmund Burke: Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent de — Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

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