William Murray Quotes

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.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

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.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

Possession is nine-tenths of the 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.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

God help the patient.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.