On the record
But all I say and do must be kept apart from the slightest countenance direct or indirect to illegality.
Said by
John Morley
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But all I say and do must be kept apart from the slightest countenance direct or indirect to illegality.”
Editor's note · Context
Morley emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clear distinction from any actions that could be seen as illegal.
Share
More from John Morley
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
Other voices in this conversation
