 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...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 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I our/lit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 pages
...question with me is, not 5 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...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...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...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1888 - 966 pages
...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...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Nobody shall persuade me, where a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1972 - 116 pages
...FDA decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1972 - 106 pages
...FDA decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1901 - 684 pages
...righl to render your people misérable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. Il is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me 1 ought to do. 1s a politic act thé worse for being a generous one! 1s no concession proper, but that... | |
 | 1976 - 136 pages
...Burke declared was, '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...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.' He rightly insisted, that the ordinary commercial intercourse between Britain and the colonies fostered... | |
 | Alexander M. Bickel - Law - 1975 - 174 pages
...said Burke to the government of King George III in his second speech on conciliation with America, "what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." The fact is that no measures of pervasive application can or should rest on narrow majorities. These... | |
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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. 
