Defence Quote by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of…

— Thomas Jefferson

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

— Keith Olbermann

“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it is always…

— Niall Ferguson

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some…

— Nat Hentoff

Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

— Thomas Jefferson

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.

— Matt Letscher

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage…

— James Monroe

Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against…

— John Stuart Mill

Whether it be the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 or the Terrorism Act 2000, there is no shortage of offences with which to prosecute those…

— Dominic Grieve