William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell Quotes

William Scott's page feels like a sharp legal mind debating what counts as fair rule-making.

5 quotes

1. Necessity creates the law,-it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases is likewise legal.

2. A dinner lubricates business.

3. The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.

4. What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

5. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.