"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 …"

"STRANGER, Ere thou pass, contemplate this cannon, Nor regardless be told That near its base lies deposited the dust O…"

"The Dominion of the Sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the Crown of England, so it is the best security …"

"All fiefs were originally masculine, and women were excluded from the succession of them because they cannot keep sec…"

"A woman's notes will not signify much truly, no more than her tongue."

"The people as a source of sovereign power are in truth only occasional partners in the constitutional minuet danced f…"

"A government above the law is a menace to be defeated."