 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.  The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application - Page 130by Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...whole have sunk. 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...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.— Sfeech on Condl. with America. I was true to my old, standing, invariable principle, that all things... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1886 - 492 pages
...hours. With the question of the right of taxation he would have nothing to do. ' It is not,' he said, ' what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.' The resolutions were negatived by 270 to 78. Burke's health seems to have suffered from his unavailing... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 892 pages
...literary Jacobin. So was Burke, — the author of those wise sentences that still ring in our ears : " The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, tut whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Crooker - Social problems - 1889 - 306 pages
...anywhere else, in his speech on "Conciliation with America," of which the following is a specimen : "The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." Burke used his voice for fourteen years against Warren Hastings in one prolonged and eloquent plea... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not 5 whether you have a right to render your people miserable...the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does it lessen... | |
 | America - 1892 - 734 pages
...question of constitutional law ; he was for restoring tranquillity. " The question with me is," he says, " not whether you have a right to render your people...do; but what humanity, reason and justice tell me 1 Speech on Taxation, Payne's Select Works of Burke, Vol. I, p. 153-4. I ought to do."1 Burke would... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1921 - 466 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... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1893 - 730 pages
...deference. " The question with me," he said to English legislators in regard to us, "is not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable, but...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." By this philosophy the question for us is not whether it is within abstract right and legality to leave... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1894 - 408 pages
...whole have sunk." 30 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...happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but / 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ou<jlit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...whole have sunk." 30 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...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... | |
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