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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
Equity has not relieved against gross improvidence.
Duke of Beaufort v. Neeld (1845)
A contract executed without any part performance.
R. v. Millis (1844)
Do you think that a reporter has a right to supply or suppress any part of a judgment?
Cadell v. Palmer (1833)
The Judge has not organs to know and to deal with the text of the foreign law, and therefore requires the assistance of a foreign lawyer who knows how to interpret it.
Sussex Peerage Case (1844)
Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties
The Sovereign can only act by advisers, and through the instrumentality of those who are neither infallible nor impeccable— answerable, indeed, for all that the irresponsible Sovereign may do, but liable to err through undue influence, and to be swayed by improper motives.
Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)
The Bill, the whole Bill and nothing but the Bill.
Death was now armed with a new terror.
The judicial ought to be kept entirely distinct from the legislative and executive power in the State. This separation is necessary both to secure the independence of the judicial functions and to prevent their being influenced by the interests of party or by the voice of the people.
The British Constitution (1844)
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,—a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth—of carefully respecting the property of others — of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.
In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.