 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 486 pages
...looks to me 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. " My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 242 pages
...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 5 people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward... | |
 | Arbitration, International - 1909 - 512 pages
...Expenditure for naval armaments is everywhere growing by leaps and bounds. Edmund Burke said that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people; but perhaps it may be easier to detect some of the signs of emotional insanity than to draw an indictment... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...though they could "prosecute that spirit [of American independence] as criminal" and Burke replies: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Conciliation, far from disrupting the empire, was the only way of preserving it. "Such is steadfastly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...some other law passed in its shadow, so be it; there is nothing to be done about it. Burke asserted, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people ... I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
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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. 
