William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes

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

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• 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
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Population