 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.  Speech on Conciliation with America - Страница 37по Edmund Burke - 1897 - 152 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 страници
...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,... | |
 | Sir Bernard Crick - 2005 - 224 страници
...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 tells I ought to do.' Those are the only terms in which sovereignty can work. The misanthrope of Malmesbury... | |
 | Pauline H. Tesler - 2001 - 268 страници
...A GOLDEN HOOK." ROMAN PROVERB "IF YOU WAIT, ALL THAT HAPPENS IS YOU GET OLDER." LARRY McMURTRY "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 "NEGATIVE EVENTS DON'T HAVE TO BE RESPONDED TO NEGATIVELY." VIRGINIA SATIR "EVERY THOUGHT... | |
 | University of Toronto. Faculty of Law - 2001 - 520 страници
...Charter-Proof and Crime-Based Response to Terrorism KENT ROACH'" Faculty of Law University of Toronto It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason and justice tells me I ought to do ... I am not determining a point of law; I am restoring tranquillity ...1 ...... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 страници
...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic art the worse for being a generous one 1 Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant 1 Or does it lessen the grace and dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you... | |
 | Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. Dunbar - 2002 - 1026 страници
...principles stressed by Edmund Burke on "American Taxation": "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do." In the future the people will determine what law and interpretations of police power are fitted for... | |
 | R. James Woolsey - 310 страници
...Edmund Burke's admonition to the British government in its dealings with the American colonies: "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason and justice tell me should do. Is a political act the worse for being a generous one?" And in standing on their legal rights,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 страници
...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,...keep what you grant ? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have your evidence-room full of... | |
 | John B. Morrall - 2004 - 162 страници
...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.'" Towards this end government must direct itself. He admitted without hesitation that: All government,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - 848 страници
...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...right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the 196 197 grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have your evidence-room... | |
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