The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Henry G. Bohn, 1857 - Great Britain |
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Page 101 - Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. Name me a magistrate, and I will name property ; name me power, and I will name protection. It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included.
Page 101 - Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power are alike criminal ; and there is no man but is bound to resist it to the best of his power, wherever it shall show its face to the world.
Page 101 - We may bite our chains if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is born to be governed by law; and he that will substitute will in the place of it is an enemy to GOD.
Page 14 - But the crimes which we charge in these articles, are not lapses, defects, errors, of common human frailty, which, as we know and feel, we can allow for. We charge this offender with no crimes that have not arisen from passions which it is criminal to...
Page 230 - Lords, we have here a new nobility, who have risen, and exalted themselves by various merits, by great military services, which have extended the fame of this country from the rising to the setting sun : we have those, who by various civil merits and various civil talents have been exalted to a situation, which they well deserve, and in which they will justify the...
Page 99 - He have arbitrary power! My lords, the East- India Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to give him ; your lordships have aot ; nor the Commons ; nor the whole legislature. We have no arbitrary power to give, because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give.
Page 186 - Rungpore and Dinagepore, for non-payment, were in many instances of such a nature that I would rather wish to draw a veil over them than shock your feelings by the detail, but that...
Page 98 - Here he has declared his opinion, that he is a despotic prince, that he is to use arbitrary power ; and of course all his acts are covered with that shield. " I know" says he, " the constitution of Asia only from its practice.
Page 504 - There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity : — the law of nature and of nations.
Page 231 - Master of nature chose to appear himself in a subordinate situation. These are the considerations which influence them, which animate them, and will animate them, against all oppression, knowing that He who is called first among them and first among us all, both of the flock that is fed and of those who feed it, made himself the servant of all.