Top 15 John Holt Quotes

Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man's vote.

If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder other officers from the like offences.

If it be a matter within our jurisdiction, we are bound by our oaths to judge of it.

Every injury imports a damage, though it does not cost the party one farthing, and it is impossible to prove the contrary; for a damage is not merely pecuniary, but an injury imports a damage, when a man is hereby hindered of his right. As in an action for slanderous words, though a man does not lose a penny by reason of the speaking them, yet he shall have an action. So if a man give another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury.

Every man that is injured ought to have his recompence.

Where a man has but one remedy to come at his right, if he loses that he loses his right.

It would look very strange, when the Commons of England are so fond of their right of sending representatives to Parliament, that it should be in the power of a sheriff, or other officer, to deprive them of that right, and yet that they should have no remedy; it is a thing to be admired at by all mankind.

It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.

Actual perceptible damage is not indispensable as the foundation of an action; it is sufficient to show the violation of a right, in which case the law will presume damage.

We must not be frighted when a matter of property comes before us by saying it belongs to the Parliament; we must exert the Queen's jurisdiction.

I agree we ought not to incroach or inlarge our jurisdiction; by so doing we usurp both on the right of the Queen and the people.

Surely the navy must be the navy royal.

He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.

Whatever at common law might be amended in civil cases, was at common law amendable in criminal, and so it is at this day.

It is a disparagement of the Government, who put an ill man into office.