The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
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Sometimes we have to take measures to protect the innocent that we do not like. Severe interrogations are sometimes part of doing that.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
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