Quotes by William Murray, 1St Earl Of Mansfield - Page 1

God help the patient.
William Murray, 1St Earl Of Mansfield / Judge
Doctors
Humorous
Medicine
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
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Law
Nine
Possession
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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
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Fall
Justice
Law
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There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.
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Men
Heart
Motivation
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Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
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Justice
Uncertain
Verdict
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True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all
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Equality
Justice
Liberty
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There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.
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An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
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Justice
Precarious
Values
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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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Book
Mind
Reading
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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Popularity
Recognition
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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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Crime
Eye
Law
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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Decisions Made
Decisions You Make
Giving
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It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.
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Sake
Sound
Unjust
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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.
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Notes
Principles
Property
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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.
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Giving
Justice
Thinking
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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.
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Population
Should
Thinking
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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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Running
Justice
Mean
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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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Atheist
Philosophy
Strong
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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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War
Islands
Law
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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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Christian
Prayer
Religious
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