Trespass Quotes
More Trespass Quotes
And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us.
— Morning Prayer, the Lord's Prayer.
For nature, heartless, witless nature, Will neither care nor know What stranger's feet may find the meadow And trespass there and go, Nor ask amid the dews of morning If they are mine or no.
— 1922 Last Poems, no.40.
I yearned to trespass on Quality Street.
— On his desire to produce better films. Quoted in the NewYorker, 21 Mar1994.
The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
— Remarks to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (22 April 1954).
I believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of "intellectual property." What the law demands today is increasingly as silly as a sheriff arresting an airplane for trespass. But the consequences of this silliness will be much more profound.
lawrence lessig— Introduction
Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.
john f. kennedy— First State of the Union Address (30 January 1961)
He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.
— Holt, C.J., Tenant v. Goldwin (1704), 1 Salk. 361.
By the laws of England, every invasion of private property, be it ever so minute, is a trespass. No man can set his foot upon my ground without my licence, but he is liable to an action, though the damage be nothing.
— Camden, L.C.J., Entick v. Carrington (1765), 19 How. St. Tr. 1066.
"Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us."
— The Lord's Prayer
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. trespass not on his solitude.
ralph waldo emerson— "Education", Lectures and biographical sketches (1883)
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of trespass as the starting point.
edward jenks— Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 67
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of trespass as the starting point.
— Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 67 (A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912))
