• I will not avoid doing 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.

    William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield: I will not avoid doing 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.
    "The miscellaneous writings of Joseph Story ..., Vol. 3". Book by Joseph Story, C. C. Little and J. Brown, p. 211, 1852.