John Coleridge

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

"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."

"I was brought up under a system in which discretion when given was practically absolute. It was the unbroken tradition of Westminster Hall. I believe that system worked justice and saved expense. I ho…"

"As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law."

"We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights."

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

"It is no longer true in the sense in which it was true when these dicta were uttered, that " Christianity is part of the law of the land." Nonconformists and Jews were then under penal laws, and were …"

"We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be."