Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin quotes
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“The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.”
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“The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.”
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“The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.”
-- Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
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Source : 1937 The Olive Tree.
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“...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...”
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Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.173, Delacorte Press
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”
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