Wellfounded Quotes
More Wellfounded Quotes
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don’t need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
robert charles wilson— p. 368 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))
I do not understand legal fraud. To my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or legal cold, legal light or legal shade. There never can be a well-founded complaint of legal fraud, or of anything else, except where some duty is shown and correlative right , and some violation of that duty and right.
— Lord Bramwell, Weir v. Bell (1878), 3 Ex. D. 243.
Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territory — its great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippi — as well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.
john c. calhoun— Letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States, concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries (3 September 1844).
