Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon quotes
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“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.
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“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : Godfrey v. Hudson, 2 Esp. 500, 1788.
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“All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : Trial of John Vint and others, 27 How. St. Tr. 640, 1799.
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“It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : Case of John Lambert and others, 22 How. St. Tr. 1018, 1793.
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“To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : Eaton's Case, 1 East. 573, 1801.
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“We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : King v. Waddington, 1 East, 158, 1800.
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“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.
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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
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