Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Quotes

• Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Political, Soul, Body

  In Poynder 'Literary Extracts' (1844) vol. 1 (usually quoted as 'Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?')

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• You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Business, Justice, Soul

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• Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Common Sense, Age, Common

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• When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Loyalty, May, Sovereign

  27 "Parliamentary History", 680; Annual Register, 1789.

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• May, queen of blossoms,
  And fulfilling flowers,
  With what pretty music
  Shall we charm the hours?
  Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
  Blown in the open mead?
  Or to the lute give heed
  In the green bowers.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Queens, Flower, Giving

  Edward Thurlow, “May”

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• Nature is always wise in every part.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Wise, Nature

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