It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.
Edmund BurkeSource: Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.
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