Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine famous quotes

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Integrity #Justice #Independence

The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Writing #Men #Media

It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Bible #Feelings #Atmosphere

To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Feet #Rocks #Christ

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Soul #Movement #Path

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Justice #Care #Looks

When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.
-- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Prayer #Sacrifice #Employment

Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.