William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.”
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“Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.
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“There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "The King v. Woodfall" (1774), Lofft. 782 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 178-180), 1904.
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“The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.”
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“There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.”
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“Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "Cases in the King's Bench" (1773), Hilary Term, 13 Geo. III, Lofft. 147 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 146), 1904.
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“The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.”
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“I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after--it is that popularity which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.”
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“True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all”
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“Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.”
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“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.”
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“Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : Advice to a newly appointed colonial governor ignorant in the law, in John Lord Campbell 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England' (1849) vol. 2, ch. 40
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“Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.”
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“We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.”
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“An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "Fisher v. Prince", 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365, 1762.
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“I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "The miscellaneous writings of Joseph Story ..., Vol. 3". Book by Joseph Story, C. C. Little and J. Brown, p. 211, 1852.
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“God help the patient.”
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“Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.”
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "A Book About Lawyers", Vol. 1, by John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1867.
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“True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.”
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“Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
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