If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means. - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

I have been reminded that I sit here as counsel for the defendant. I certainly do so, so far as to interpose between him and the counsel for the prosecution, and to see that no improper use of the law is made against him, and that no improper evidence is given to the jury: but the Judge has another task to perform, which is that of assisting the jury in the administration of justice.

It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.

We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.