Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Quotes

• That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Crowns, Corporations, Creatures

  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 Kenyon

  Men, Doubt, May

  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 Kenyon

  Wise, Government, Public Opinion

  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 Kenyon

  Motivation, Heart, Men

  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 Kenyon

  Motivation, Heart, Men

  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 Kenyon

  Motivation, Men, Judging

  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 Kenyon

  Punishment, Justice, Perfection

  Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.

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