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«Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| About:
Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, excuses, ignorance of the law, plead
«Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell»
«Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
accused, cunning, falsehoods, false witness, grant, malice, mingles, moment of truth, plead, pleading, pleads, promotes, surmise, surmises, tale, The Accused
«In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot»
«Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.»
«O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! / When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.»
«If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? / If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.»
«If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, celebrated, government officials, hostage, hostages, industrialist, officials, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, release, sacrificed, terrorists
