John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.
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It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.
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A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
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There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.
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I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.
-- John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.
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I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.
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We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
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There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.
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