 | Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...circumstances, 'the most odious of all wrongs and the most vexatious of all injustice.' . . .('The question with me is not whether you have a right to render...justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the vtarse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 110 pages
...sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in 5 such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render...reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic 10 act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your... | |
 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...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 to render...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It 25 is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 pages
...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 to render...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It 25 is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to... | |
 | 1976 - 136 pages
...parties concerned and to avoid insistence on questions of right. The real issue, Burke declared was, 'not whether you have a right to render your people...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... | |
 | Michael Roberts - History - 2003 - 250 pages
...question of expediency, still debatable. Half a century later Burke would be reminding his hearers that, 'It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me that I ought to do'; and that was a consideration which was - usually - kept in mind. So much so, that... | |
 | Robert Lloyd Kelley - History - 1990 - 492 pages
...204-5. emotion and the itch to assert a "rightful" power. "The question with me is," he said in 1775, "not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not in your interest to make them happy."2 To those who argued that the colonists were committing a criminal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...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 to render...whether it is not your interest to make them happy? Is it not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...but not abstractly, concretely but not pedantically. Burke can now claim without inconsistency that it "is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." Here the appeal to circumstances and principled response conflates motives to honor and expedience,... | |
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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. 
