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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. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 142
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Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775

Edmund Burke - 1895 - 136 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made...
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Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775

Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made...
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Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (March) 22, 1775)

Edmund Burke - 1895 - 156 pages
...a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make 5 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. Is a politic act the worse for being -a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from...
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Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).

Edmund Burke - 1895 - 158 pages
...a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make 5 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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 23

1888 - 966 pages
...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. Nobody shall persuade me, where a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of...
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Nominations--1971, Hearings Before..., 92-1, on Nominations of September 17 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1972 - 106 pages
...FDA decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment...
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Nominations--1971: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1972 - 116 pages
...FDA decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment...
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U.S. Policy and Programs in Cambodia: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs - 1973 - 230 pages
...Edmund 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...
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Annales de Bretagne, Volume 17

1901 - 684 pages
...righl to render your people misérable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. Il is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me 1 ought to do. 1s a politic act thé worse for being a generous one! 1s no concession proper, but that...
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DHEW Publication No. (OE).

1976 - 136 pages
...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.' He rightly insisted, that the ordinary commercial intercourse between Britain and the colonies fostered...
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