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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes: A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
         

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


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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.

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.



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



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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.

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.



Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.



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



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



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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.

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.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.





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