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More Corpus Quotes

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• Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases… — Thomas Jefferson
• The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may… — Thomas Jefferson
• Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas… — Richard Henry Lee
• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the… — Charles Macklin
• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery,… — John Richard Green
• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery,… — John Arbuthnot
• History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on,… — Edward Hallett Carr
• No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against… — Murray Rothbard
• As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state,… — Anthony Gregory
• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which… — Thomas Jefferson
• Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights,… — Paul Craig Roberts

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