Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow Thurlow Quotes

Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow Thurlow delivers a blunt take on how corporations act without conscience.

10 quotes

1. I was with you, Mr. Scott-till I heard your argument.

2. The accident of an accident.

3. When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

4. Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.

5. I suppose no one ever was so wise as Thurlow looks.

6. Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?

7. Nature is always wise in every part.

8. You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

9. Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

10. May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.