 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
 | H. W. Brands - History - 1998 - 356 pages
...principle for principle's sake was the mark of folly rather than wisdom. Again Morgenthau turned to Burke: "The question with me is not whether you have a right...humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do." Sixth, nations must avoid putting themselves in positions from which retreat entailed loss of prestige,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...people, Burke concludes, is the history of liberty itself. So while urging a prudential wisdom — "The question with me is not, whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy" — he now adds a practical corollary: "An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...latitude reverse all jurisprudence: a meridian decides the truth. Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 294 (1670) H It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America (177 5) is Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli,... | |
 | Melissa S. Williams - Philosophy - 2000 - 350 pages
...compact. As he said in relation to the issue of taxation in the American colonies, "The question ... is, not whether you have a right to render your people...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy."43 It is now easier to see the ways in which Burkes corporate view of the nation includes an... | |
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