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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
eerfully to death, rather than sully his lips with the atrocious plea; and that is Ulpian, who, aiding his prince to put the army below the law, was massacred at the foot of a weak, but virtuous throne. And France stretches forth her grateful hands, crying, That is D'Aguesseau, worthy, when he went to face an enraged king, of the farewell his wife addressed him,-- Go! forget that you have a wife and children to ruin, and remember only that you have France to save. England says, That is Coke, who flung the laurels of eighty years in the face of the first Stuart, in defence of the people. This is Selden, on every book of whose library you saw written the motto of which he lived worthy, Before everything, Liberty! That is Mansfield, silver. tongued, who proclaimed, Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free. This is Romilly, who spent life trying to make law synonymous with justice, and succeeded in making life and property