The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
