Corpus Quotes
35 quotes by 27 authors
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on the…
— Richard Henry Lee
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is…
— Charles Macklin
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
— John Richard Green
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard…
— John Arbuthnot
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's…
— Edward Hallett Carr
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No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such…
— Murray Rothbard
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As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.
— Anthony Gregory
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to…
— Lynn Freed
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The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed…
— John Amery
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We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of…
— Winston Churchill
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My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics…
— James Meade
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My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance…
— James Meade
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Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch…
— David Gregory
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We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to…
— Westbrook Pegler
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