“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”
More from Edmund Burke
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the…”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”