Different Quote by Anna Letitia Barbauld

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

— Voltaire

The law of England is a law of liberty .

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

— George Bernard Shaw

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and…

— John Adams

“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.”

— Jovan Autonomašević

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons…

— Margaret Thatcher

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

— James Stockdale

“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the…

— Hilary Mantel

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped…

— Marilynne Robinson