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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes: Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to 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.


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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.



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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.



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



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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.



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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.





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