English Law Quotes

8 English Law quotes by 7 unique authors

• 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… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
• If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the… — Learned Hand
• And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me,… — James Otis
• My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at… — Garrison Keillor
• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
• The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. — Charles Dickens
• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These English Law Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 English Law Quotes as follows:

• 2 English Law Quotes by Charles Dickens
• 1 English Law Quote by William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
• 1 English Law Quote by Learned Hand
• 1 English Law Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 English Law Quote by James Otis
• 1 English Law Quote by Garrison Keillor
• 1 English Law Quote by Cyril Connolly