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The Court has no fears for the safety of the Christian religion. It does not believe that the rock upon which Christianity stands can ever be shaken.

— Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet Trial of Mary Ann Carlile (1821)

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Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

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You may discuss the question of legality on legal grounds, but not by an argumentum ad hominem.

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King v. Knowles (1820)

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

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