On the record
And yet, my Lords, the prisoner, by the plan of his defence, demands not only an escape, but a triumph.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “And yet, my Lords, the prisoner, by the plan of his defence, demands not only an escape, but a triumph.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke highlights the prisoner's demand for not just acquittal but also a triumph over the Commons.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
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…
Jan 1, 1790
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
Jan 1, 1790
Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?
Jan 1, 1790
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Other voices in this conversation
