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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 948
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE,Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, pp. 438–39 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Justice