It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."—Edmund Burke
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill.
2009.
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