On the record
Perhaps there is not a tribunal in this country whose reputation is really more untainted than that of a court-martial.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Perhaps there is not a tribunal in this country whose reputation is really more untainted than that of a court-martial.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that court-martials maintain a reputation for fairness in the judicial system.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…
Jan 1, 1790
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Jan 1, 1790
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
Jan 1, 1790
Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…
Other voices in this conversation
