 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1895 - 154 pages
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is y not whether you have a right to render your people...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make 5 them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 256 pages
...those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood." " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. . . . Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 270 pages
...those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood." " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ... Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 242 pages
...government. . . . The question with me is not whether you have a right i Speech on American Taxation. to render your people miserable, but whether it is...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ... I am not determining a point of law ; I ain restoring tranquillity, and the general character and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 106 pages
...have no force. He spoke out in plain words, and appealed to their reason and their own interest. " The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." Had his hearers been less corrupt, had they been but a little less blinded by their personal interests... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - English language - 1896 - 296 pages
...down: ' It may be we shall todfch the Happy Isles. 5. Wealth may seek«s, but wisdom must be sought. 6. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.—BURKE. 7. They had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. 8. Too late... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 264 pages
...those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood." " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...render your people miserable, but whether it is not ,j your interest to make them happy. It is not what f a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 378 pages
...If--. ' '\ . r L_ I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in si]ch respectable company. The question with me is —not whether you have a right to render your people^ miserable. buT'whethe'r it la hoi your interest to Tna>-Q— them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 248 pages
...1 °~ -*»'-/l ' I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is — not whether you have a right to render your people 15 miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Great Britain - 1896 - 256 pages
...giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government. . . . The question with me is not whether you have a right to Tender your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what... | |
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The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. 
