William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield: Man

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“The last end that can happen to any man, never comes too soon, if he falls in support of the law and liberty of his country: for liberty is synonymous to law and government.”

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Rex v. Wilkes (1769), 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2563.

Law , Support , Country

“Tut, man, 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 Mansfield

When asked by an army officer, appointed governor of a west Indies island and who had no experience in law, how to apply the law. Quoted by John Cordy Jeaffreson in A Book About Lawyers http://books.google.com/books?id=lUpqPJSlBS8C&q="tut+man+decide+promptly+but+never+give+any+reasons+for+your+decisions+your+decisions+may+be+right+but+your+reasons+are+sure+to+be+wrong"&pg=PA85#v=onepage, Volume 1 (1867).

Decision

“A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.”

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Bird v. Gunston (1785), 3 Doug. 275.