"The law hath not been dead, though..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.”

“If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not”

“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”

“Let the punishment be equal with the offence.[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]”

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.”

“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.”

“It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”