Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

About Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”
— Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.
“Gentlemen, I speak for myself as well as for you: I never read anything about what may come before me in a Court of Justice; I keep my mind free from everything of the kind. There is often a necessity for me to look into the law: but I never suffer my mind to be biassed by reports, or such papers or pamphlets as are written with a view to pervert justice.”
— Wilkes' Case (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1410.
“Taxation and representation are inseparable... whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man has a right to take it from him without his consent, either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.”
— Speech in the House of Lords, on the taxation of Americans by the British parliament, 7 March 1766; as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1990), 2nd edn., p. 60

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