Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Quotes

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Taxation and representation are inseparable... whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man has a right to take it from him without his consent, either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Gentlemen, I speak for myself as well as for you: I never read anything about what may come before me in a Court of Justice; I keep my mind free from everything of the kind. There is often a necessity for me to look into the law: but I never suffer my mind to be biassed by reports, or such papers or pamphlets as are written with a view to pervert justice.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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Born: March 21, 1714

Died: April 18, 1794 (aged 80)

Bio: Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden.

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