...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...