Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

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Law Legal theory Tyranny

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Edmund Burke

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Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

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Philosopher Politician Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Burke, Edmund. Speech in the Bristol Guildhall. 6 Sept. 1780, Bristol Guildhall, Bristol, England, UK.

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Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself.

William Blake

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William Blake
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The Book of Thel
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Blake, William. The Book of Thel. London, c. 1789.

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Blake, William. "The Book of Thel." Blake: Poems, edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library, 1994.

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Charles Macklin

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Charles Macklin
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Love a la Mode
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1759 1750s 18th century
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Citation

Macklin, Charles. Love a la Mode. c. 1759, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

John Newton

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

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Consequences of slavery

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John Newton
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Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
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English
Time
1780 1780s 18th century
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Citation

Newton, John. "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade." Letters and Sermons. c. 1780.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Radio address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum. 26 Oct. 1939, Washington, DC, USA.