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4157. JUDGES, Biased.—[further continued].

As, for the safety of society,
we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam,
so judges should be withdrawn from their
bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us
to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them
in fame or in fortune; but it saves the Republic,
which is the first and supreme law.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 82. Ford ed., i, 114.
(1821)