I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
– Thomas Erskine
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
– Thomas Erskine
Let him who plays the monarch be a king; who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part.
– Thomas Erskine
The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; for Nature, that to them gave gout, to us gave only gout.
– Thomas Erskine
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.