Quotes from Reg. v. Ramsey — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
d. 1894 England
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1886)
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)