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 wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldThere is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldTrue popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldThe expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield