England
- For those convicted on or after 1 May 1707, see Great Britain and United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the word england:
“In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“What were the “forests” of England to these?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)