Lord Mansfield Quotations

It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery

A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.