"Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand."

"Every man ought to have the fullest opportunity of establishing his innocence if he can."

"One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement."

"I rejoice to think that since the days of Queen Elizabeth, our laws have been so far humanized that a bastard child i…"

"We just didn't understand that they [the Islamists] were not just anti-Western but on a different plane altogether an…"

"Each jury is a little parliament. The jury sense is the parliamentary sense. I cannot see the one dying and the other…"

"I think...that it is not possible to set theoretical limits to the power of the State to legislate against immorality…"

"The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creat…"

"Ability isn't the most important thing. In most cases the facts aren't really very difficult to get at: no, the most …"

"After all, they are only going into their own back garden."