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" ... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 128
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Closing the Ring

Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 1948 - 708 pages
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A Dictionary of Legal Quotations

Simon R. James, Chantal Stebbings - Law - 1987 - 232 pages
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International Law Reports, Volume 77

E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1988 - 790 pages
...exercise their own judgment. (Incidentally, Burke would have favoured State immunity, since he did not "know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people".) That and other considerations derived from ITA 6 persuade me that there is a good deal to be said for...
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The New Age Magazine, Volume 65

Freemasonry - 1957 - 874 pages
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They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading ...

Paul F. Boller Jr. Emeritus Professor of History Texas Christian University, Oklahoma John George Jr. Professor of Political Science and Sociology Central State University - History - 1989 - 190 pages
...22, 1775, entitled, "On Moving His Resolution for Conciliation with the Colonies," Burke declared: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." But he was soon being quoted as saying, "You cannot indict a whole people," and the...
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Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications

Daniel E. Ritchie - Philosophy - 2011 - 334 pages
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The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of ...

Robert Lloyd Kelley - History - 1990 - 492 pages
...argued that the colonists were committing a criminal act in being rebellious, he made the famous reply, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." And when others began by tortuous legal argument to prove that Britain was right in what she was doing,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Angela Partington - Reference - 1992 - 1098 pages
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The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke

Conor Cruise O'Brien - History - 1994 - 768 pages
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And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the ...

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...of teaching, and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service. — James A. Perkins I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. — Edmund Burke God must have loved the common people because he made so many of...
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