Habeas Quotes

#1. Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus.

John Dos Passos

#2. 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

#3. We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state ... Somehow it is always a choice between habeas corpus and hundreds of corpses.

Niall Ferguson

#4. Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans.

Richard Henry Lee

#5. This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

Antonin Scalia

#6. as of April 1, 2010, the U.S. government had lost thirty-four out of forty-six habeas cases. In appeals of several of those cases,

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#7. 2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man 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 S. Churchill

#8. In 1989 the former drug czar and TV talk-show fool, William Bennett, suggested de jure as well as de facto abolition of habeas corpus in "drug" cases as well as (I am not inventing this) public beheadings of drug dealers.

Gore Vidal

#9. Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law.

Stephen Colbert

#10. People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Martin Mayer

#11. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Plautus

#12. In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

John Amery

#13. Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

Noah Feldman

#14. What a man! He certainly seems to have the run of this country. Just shows how one can push a democracy around, what with habeas corpus and human rights and all the rest. Glad we haven't got him on our hands in England.

Ian Fleming

#15. 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

#16. There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

Alberto Gonzales

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

Anthony Gregory

#20. The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Keith Olbermann

#22. As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus ... on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

Anthony Gregory

#23. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#25. The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

John Yoo

#26. Listen to what the sky is telling you.

A.D. Posey

#27. He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

Bobby Darnell

#29. Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.

William Shakespeare

#30. I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.

Doug Weight

#31. The Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.

Jonathan Edwards

#32. I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

William P. Leahy

#33. The best research you can do is to talk to people.

Terry Pratchett

#34. The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.

Mario Puzo

#35. If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You!

Rumi

#36. The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#37. -loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny)

Anna Carey

#38. As soon as ... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Daniel Keyes

#39. People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

Anthony DeCurtis