"The Crown used to call a Parliament annually, but there was not an annual election. These words, annuo parliamento, r…"

"I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it."

"The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them."

"Those who make the attack ought to be very well prepared to support it."

"In this case the plaintiff does not come into Court with clean hands; he alleges his own turpitude, and is indictable…"

"Legal coercion is a course which the law allows."

"If it were a doubtful point how the statute should be construed, I must consider myself as bound by the construction …"

"I should be as unwilling as any man to concur in anything injurious to the rights of the subject. The Habeas Corpus i…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"