We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be. (John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge)

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

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