John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
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