Charles Dickens Quotes
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Chapman and Hall, 1837.
In the first real code of laws of the first American Coony in Virginia,, lying under oath was a capital offense.
She was attacking George W. Bush who had started the Iraq War on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while Clinton lied over sex and although it violated the law by lying under oath, there were no injuries or deaths, while hundreds of thousands died as a result of the Iraq war. Bush claimed that he did not intentionally lie, but was mislead by poor intelligence estimates. See {583802} for another view opposing the impeachment which ended when Clinton was Easily acquitted.
It is a moral crime about which voters do not seem to care much.
After the Constitution had been ratified, there was a concerted attempt on the part of the Southern Slave States to minimize the importance of the Declaration of Independence. They feared that the equality principle in the Declaration should be seen by Americans as desirable policy which clearly meant slavery was untenable. There were three approaches all used by the Southerners. First, they tried to make it clear that the Declaration had no weight in American law or moral principles as it was superseded by the Constitution. Second, they claimed that it could only have applied to white men as Black males were not really men. Third, that the statement was patently false. This quotation illustrates the latter.
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
