Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English judge John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, PC was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England.
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
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.
As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.
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.