Quotes by Lord Mansfield

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A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right
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A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
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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 popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery
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It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient
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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.