"A dose of poison can do its work……" — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
"A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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13 Quotes by William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free.…
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Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages…
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Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be…
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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
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We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a…
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An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
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God help the patient.
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I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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