William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#War #Air #Law
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Principles #Notes #Property
There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Motivation #Heart #Men
The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Eye #Law #Crime
There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Law
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Justice #Injustice #Uncertain
The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Christian #Religious #Prayer
I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after--it is that popularity which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Running #Mean #Justice
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Justice #Liberty
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Strong #Atheist #Philosophy
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Book #Mind #Goes On
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Thinking #Giving #Justice
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Fall #Justice #Heaven
We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Girl #Teacher #Children
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Justice #Values
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Thinking #Population #Should
God help the patient.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Medicine #Patient #Helping
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Giving #Decision #May
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Recognition #Popularity
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Law #Nine #Possession

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