 Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence ; nor is the law less stable than the fact.  Marihuana: a signal of misunderstanding - Page 28by United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - 1972 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Law - 1841 - 462 pages
...as follows: — Gentlemen of the Jury, I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is... | |
 | Law - 1842 - 536 pages
...town." He concluded in these terms : " I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things ; and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...witnesses for the prisoners, and concluded : I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to yon. Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence ; nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...witnesses for the prisoners, and concluded : I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence ; nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...witnesses for the prisoners, and concluded : I will enlarge no more on the evidence, bnt submit it to you. scended from that glorious monarch, ; nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law... | |
 | Frederic Kidder - Boston Massacre, 1770 - 1870 - 314 pages
...must also be omitted ; and concluded :] I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things ; and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence ; nor is the law less stable than the fact ; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 508 pages
...straightforward, and passionless style in which he had commenced : "Facts are stubborn things," said he, " and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations,...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 pages
...the mob. He then concluded as follows:] I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence; nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1914 - 944 pages
...people of the town. Gentlemen of the Jury, I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things ; and whatever may be our...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Nor is the law less stable than the fact ; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law... | |
 | Samuel Duff McCoy - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 354 pages
...soldiers had not been the first to resort to violence. "Facts are stubborn things," he concluded, "and 1 whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the...they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. . . . "To your candor and justice I submit the prisoners and their cause. The law, in all the vicissitudes... | |
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