One witness (and for that reason) is allowed sufficient to convict, in cases of felony, which in other laws is not permitted.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent the majority of his career in Great Britain and was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1766 to 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. His writings played a significant role in influencing public views and opinions in both Great Britain and France following the French Revolution in 1789, and he remains a major figure in modern conservative circles.
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Analogical reasoning from history or from recent experience in other places is wholly delusive.
But I never will act the tyrant for their amusement.
You have a standard, a measure of extortion, and that is all: ex pede Herculem: guess from thence what was extorted from all Bengal.
Here is a system made for fraud, and producing all the effects of it.
One must not judge of the state of France by what has been observed elsewhere.
It is my duty to do it; I feel it an obligation nearest to my heart.
The Nabob is astonished at the suspicion, that such a woman as Munny Begum, whose trade in youth had been delusion, should be capable of deluding anybody.
The people, once inflamed, will not be destitute of a leader.
They would govern men against their will; but in that government they would be discharged from the exercise of vigilance, providence, and fortitude; and therefore, that they may sleep on their watch, they consent to take some one division…
As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn…
Recover your old ground, and your old tranquillity; try it; I am persuaded the Americans will compromise with you.
No man, therefore, has a right to arbitrary power.
Hastings has received the two lac of rupees, then you will find that he was guilty, without color or pretext of any kind whatever, of acting in violation of his covenant, of acting in violation of the laws, and all the rules of honor and…
To say that the opinions of learned men, though even thus obtained, may not have weight with this court, or with any court, is a kind of compliment I cannot pay to them at the expense of that common nature in which I and all human beings…
This declaration of a new species of government, on new principles, (such it professes itself to be,) is a real crisis in the politics of Europe.
That which he intends to produce as a justification we charge, and your Lordships and the world will think, to be the heaviest aggravation of his crime.
But there are other circumstances further auxiliary in this business, which, from the very attempts to conceal it, prove beyond doubt the fraudulent and wicked nature of the transaction.
The standard of qualification in both cases may be so low, or not so judiciously chosen, as in some degree to frustrate the end.
This lust of party power is the liberty they hunger and thirst for; and this Siren song of ambition has charmed ears that one would have thought were never organized to that sort of music.
Did he owe nothing to the world, as to its opinion, to which every public man owes a reputation?
Fear and shame, the great guards to virtue next to conscience, are gone.
Such a representation I think to be in many cases even better than the actual.
My Lords, no example of antiquity, nothing in the modern world, nothing in the range of human imagination, can supply us with a tribunal like this.
In my two reports I have set forth in a general manner the oppressions which provoked the ryots to rise.
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