...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...

...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...

...right to render your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy? Is it not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity,...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 Tides, and...

...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,...

...responsibility to make a peace that would endure. ' It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do,' cried Burke, 'but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a political act the worse for being a generous one ? ' Also, it is hard not to think that the demand...

...sentences. "I am not determining a point of law; I am restoring tranquillity," he argued; therefore, "it is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." 46 If, he continued, the Americans have violated the Declaratory Act, or some other law passed in its...

...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,...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 titles, and...

...it tends to be in South Africa. What is important, as Edmund Burke says, is not "what a lawyer says I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do". In any event, to talk of "individual human rights" is a contradiction in terms: they must be one or...

...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." Sixth, nations must avoid putting themselves in positions from which retreat entailed loss of prestige,...

...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...reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from...