Shall we indict one man for making a fool of another? - John Holt

No counsel in the world that understand themselves, can argue anything against what has been often settled and always practised.

Libelling against a private man is a moral offence; but when it is against a government, it tends to the destruction of it.

We are not to issue process here as instruments or conduit-pipes, but judicially as Judges: and it will not be an objection to say, that we may award process at all hazards, and let the party grieved come after and plead to it; for we shall never grant an ill-writ, that the party may avoid it in pleading.