It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.


Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)


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.

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.