Robert Atkyns (judge): Quotes about men

Robert Atkyns (judge) was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords. Explore interesting quotes on men.
Robert Atkyns (judge): 16 quotes0 likes

“The best men are but men, and are sometimes transported with passion.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1206.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“And the law says, better is a mischief than an inconvenience. By a mischief is meant, when one man or some few men suffer by the hardship of a law, which law is yet useful for the public. But an inconvenience is to have a public law disobeyed or broken, or an offence to go unpunished.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“A people whom Providence hath cast together into one island or country are in effect one great body politic, consisting of head and members, in imitation of the body natural, as is excellently set forth in the statute of appeals, made 24 H. 8, c. 12, which stiles the King the supreme head, and the people a body politic (these are the very words), compact of all sorts and degrees of men, divided into spirituality and temporality. And this body never dies.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1204.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

“There is no providence or wisdom of man, nor of any council of men that can foresee and provide for all events and variety of cases, that will or may arise upon the making of a new law.”

Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)