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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.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

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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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