 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 pages
...qualities, so the commonplaces of politics are often deemed those which may be most safely neglected. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people is one of these maxims. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 pages
...circumstances of the people whom he governs ;2 that it is impossible to treat a nation as a criminal, — I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people? — and that the surest conquests are those of peace. Though Burke could not win over Parliament to... | |
 | Arbitration, International - 1909 - 512 pages
...Expenditure for naval armaments is everywhere growing by leaps and bounds. Edmund Burke said that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people; but perhaps it may be easier to detect some of the signs of emotional insanity than to draw an indictment... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...though they could "prosecute that spirit [of American independence] as criminal" and Burke replies: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Conciliation, far from disrupting the empire, was the only way of preserving it. "Such is steadfastly... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1988 - 790 pages
...exercise their own judgment. (Incidentally, Burke would have favoured State immunity, since he did not "know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people".) That and other considerations derived from ITA 6 persuade me that there is a good deal to be said for... | |
 | Robert Lloyd Kelley - History - 1990 - 492 pages
...argued that the colonists were committing a criminal act in being rebellious, he made the famous reply, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." And when others began by tortuous legal argument to prove that Britain was right in what she was doing,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...of teaching, and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service. — James A. Perkins I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. — Edmund Burke God must have loved the common people because he made so many of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissent ions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of Millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...some other law passed in its shadow, so be it; there is nothing to be done about it. Burke asserted, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people ... I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 
