Quote#Freedom
Gentlemen, I speak for myself as well as for you: I never read…
Quote byCharles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden · 1714–1794
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Wilkes' Case (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1410..
English (original)
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.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
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