 | Huntly Carter - Great Britain - 1918 - 320 pages
...wish to see Labour contented. In Burke's «3 speech in 1775 on conciliation with America, he said, " The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." I think that expresses our view with regard to Labour to-day. It is impossible to expect a high standard... | |
 | Huntly Carter - Great Britain - 1917 - 320 pages
...subject, and quoted from Burke, who, in 1775, said, " The question with me is not whether you have the right to render your people miserable, but whether...it is not your interest to make them happy." It is this very point of view of Burke, the human point of view, so rightly quoted by Sir Maurice, which... | |
 | Maurice Benington Reckitt, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - Guild socialism - 1918 - 482 pages
...Burke's 1 Industrial Reconstruction, pp. 23, 24. speech in 1775 on conciliation with America he said : " The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." I think that expresses our view with regard to Labour to-day. We think that it does. The same conviction... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 880 pages
...no sure footing in the middle. The point is "That Serbonian bog1 Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 pages
...no sure footing in the middle. The point is "That Serbonian bog Betwixt Darnieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | Phillips Exeter Academy - English language - 1922 - 106 pages
...the navy, we must not forget what we owe the world as champions of international conciliation. 16. The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. 17. Sir, let me add, too, that the opinion of my having some abstract right in my favor would not put... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - English literature - 1926 - 548 pages
...wise. "Not what I may do," he says, "but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." "The question with me is not whether you have a right...render your people miserable, but whether it is not to your interest to make them happy." "Nobody shall persuade me, when a whole people are concerned,... | |
 | Mason Long - English language - 1928 - 344 pages
...weakness of my patronage. — SIR THOMAS BROWNE 11. The question with me is, not whether you have the right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. — EDMUND BURK 12. Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees,... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - English literature - 1928 - 420 pages
...were practicable, wise, or safe to exercise them. ' The question with me is not whether you have the right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.' When, therefore, the mass of the people, tenacious of their logical rights, as they deemed them, over... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Department of History - Canada - 1918 - 660 pages
...boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them. . . The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." In other words, since government is a practical affair of common life, practical consideration, and... | |
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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. 
