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John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Quotes

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Law, Lawyer, Supremacy
The Queen v. Bishop of London, L. R. 23 Q. B. 452, 1889.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Integrity, Law, Important
Reg. v. Ramsey, 1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134, 1883.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Believe, Trying, Virtue
Reg. v. Ramsey, 1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 145, 1883.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Strong, Drink, Crime

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Character, Men, Thinking
In re Brandreth, L. J. 60 Q. B. D. 504, 1891.

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