Age Quote by Edward Jenks

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

— Gilbert Burnet

The law of England is a law of liberty .

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

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 one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained…

— Charles Dickens

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule…

— Gina Miller

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did,…

— Edward Jenks

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained…

— Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

— Charles Dickens

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

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

— Andrew Neil

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke