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Policy should follow what humanity and justice require, not legal right
Drawn from what Edmund Burke said
What Edmund Burke actually said
- Edmund Burke Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797)
It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one?
Where this was said
↗Speech on Conciliation with America (22 March 1775)gutenberg.org
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