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I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge In re Brandreth (1891)

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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)

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

The Queen v. Instan (1893)

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Cooper v. Griffin (1892)

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889)

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