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“One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.”

Law Streets England Depressing Orthodoxy Downing Downing Street

Author:David Hare

“By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.”

People Country Law Nations Freedom Ought England Brethren

Book:Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D

Source: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D

“The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.”

Men May Ends Law Wish England Independence Breasts Sentiments Parish

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.”

People May Littles Has Beens Law Evil Individual Poor Common England Spread Surface Misfortunes Intensity Remedy Distress

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.”

Feels Real Law Doubt England Raises No Doubt Labour Provision Parish

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.”

Giving May Country Done Law Rights Subjects Protect England Committed British Remedy Grievance

Author:Bayley

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.”

America Law England Congress Parliament Above The Law

Author:Lord Acton

“Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.”

Giving Said Different Reason Law England Englishmen

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“The law of England is a law of liberty .”

Law Liberty England

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“Christianity is part of the law of England.”

Law Christianity England

Author:John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon