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• One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.

  David Greenberg

  War, People, President

  "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Omission, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.337, Penguin

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• The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

  Clement Attlee

  Real, Enemy, Tests

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• People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Writing, People

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.129, Vintage

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• There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philosophy wants to try to understand everything. It is a better dialogue partner with faith than law.

  Francis George

  Philosophy, Islamic, Exercise

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Stars, Names, Ideas

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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• You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

  Richard Selzer

  Echoes, Agony, Giving

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Islam, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Letters, Ambassadors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Mean, Eight

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

  Nat Hentoff

  Bills, Habeas Corpus, Tough

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Growing, Parks

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.

  Dick Durbin

  War, Issues, President

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
  [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
  Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
  Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

  Lucretius

  Strong, Mind, Jam

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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 the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rights, Expression

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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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 of mass unemployment and international economics.

  James Meade

  Jobs, Two, Unemployment

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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 for the formulation of economic policy.

  James Meade

  Fields, Economic, Theory

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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 owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.

  David Gregory

  Men, White, House

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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 anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Men, Rights, California

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• The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued

  Albert Outler

  Doe, Use, Term

  Albert Cook Outler, Thomas C. Oden (1991). “The Wesleyan Theological Heritage: Essays of Albert C. Outler”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.

  Horace Walpole

  Passion, Liberty, Trials

  Horace Walpole (1822). “Memoires of the Last Ten years of the Reign of George the Second”, p.286

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• For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  Past, New Experiences, Facts

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, Real, Class

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• The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
  [Lat., Quin corpus onustum
  Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
  Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

  Horace

  Depressing, Yesterday, Mind

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• It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
  [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
  Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

  Plautus

  Courage, Men, Clients

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