“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
King v. Justices of Flintshire (1797), 7 T. R. 200.
As quoted in Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime, Richard Pipes, New York: NY, Vintage Books, 1995, p. 252, and in Yvon de Begnac, Palazzo Venezia: Storia di un Regime, Rome, 1950, p. 361.
Undated
“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
King v. Justices of Flintshire (1797), 7 T. R. 200.
Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945) President of Sri Lanka
Justice Palakidnar Memorial Oration http://groundviews.org/2011/07/27/justice-palakidnar-memorial-oration-economic-development-inclusive-societies-and-peace/, speech delivered at the Justice Palakidnar Memorial Oration in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 24 July 2011. <br class="br">Also quoted by BBC News, "Chandrika Kumaratunga berates Sri Lankan government" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14274988, 25 July 2011.
Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) King of England from 1509 until 1547
Speech to Parliament on parliamentary privilege (March/April 1542), as quoted in Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Volume III (1808), by Raphael Holinshed, p. 824
Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader
" Message to the people of the United States of America http://www.afghan-web.com/documents/let-masood.html" (1998).
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Remark made at Kremlin New Year's Eve reception, December 31, 1956. Quoted in Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw. ISBN 9781448205059