Quote of the Day

Back in the eighteenth century, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield offered up this statement as his "Credo for Judges," though it's not bad advice for anyone in public life:

"I will not do that which my conscience tells me
is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the
daily praise of all the papers which come from the
press; I will not avoid what I think is right, though
it should draw on me the whole artillery that
falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity
a deluded population can swallow."