Sir Frederick Pollock

"Arguments from the American statute are not of much force, because Englishmen are not bound to know it."

"I remember Lord Eldon saying to counsel, " You have told us how far the cases have gone, will you now tell us where they are to stop?" I think it is now time that we should say where the cases are to …"

"The rule is this: that wherever there is a decision of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, the other Courts will adopt that as the basis of their decision, provided it can be appealed from. If it cann…"

"International law, like the moral law, is part of the law of England, but only to the extent that the Courts will not help those that break it."

"Judges are philologists of the highest order."

"In a perfectly new case—a case altogether primae impressionis—I think the Judges are bound to hold fast to the principles of the common law—to remember the maxim, "Salus reipublicae suprema lex," and …"

"You have no right, for the purpose of justifying a libel, to inquire into a man's life and opinions."

"Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability."