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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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Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, Volume 3

Simon James - Business & Economics - 2002 - 414 pages
...imprisonment, for sizeable numbers of trade unionists if they broke the trade union law. Edmund Burke's dictum: 'I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people' is no less relevant in the enforcement of tax laws. There are some 35 million taxpayers,...
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Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime

Michael Curtis - History - 2002 - 460 pages
...disregarding normal restraints and customary forms of civilised conduct? Edmund Burke was right when he wrote: 'I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' The record of the French people is mixed: mercenary, subservient, heroic, cautious, opportunistic,...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VII: Era of Revolution

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...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...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual [Sir Walter Raleigh] at the...
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The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861

Mark A. Weitz - Capture at sea - 2005 - 240 pages
...several communities which compose a great empire." Burke conceded that as to the American colonists, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Furthermore, "I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures." Harrison...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...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 an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creaturss ... I...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...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 an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir...
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