Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldI will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldThe law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldUncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield