THE STAFF OF HONESTY. It was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick and left it c f marble. But how much nobler will be our Sovereign s boast when he shall have to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap; found it a sealed book—left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich—left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the twoedged sword of craft and oppression—left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. —Lord Brougham.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 189, 11 August 1931, Page 9
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