 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 Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 75by Edmund Burke - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest ERS. "Eloquence, in this empire, is power. Give a man nerve, reason, and justice tell me I ou.Jht to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, bnt 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 516 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 242 pages
...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. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity,... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...not whether you have a right to ren der your people miserable, but whether it is not your inter1 est 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. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity,... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 728 pages
...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. 0. Lorenzo — The moon shines... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1881 - 1110 pages
...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 toll* mo I ought to do." MB. REDMOND said, it appeared to him that it was the duty... | |
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