Punishments are rather to be mitigated, than made more severe.
Pœna vel remedium ex incrementio quod prius erat non tollit.
Neither punishment nor remedy, takes away from the increase which was before.
Politiæ legibus non leges politiis adaptandæ.
Policies ought to be adapted to the laws, not laws to the policies.
Pondere, numero, et mensura.
By weight, by number, and by measure.
Populus Anglicanus nemini servire aut consuevit aut debuit nisi Deo et legibus.
The people of England have been accustomed to be subject to nobody, nor ought they; but to God and the laws.
Populus Anglicanus non nisi suis legibus quas ipse elegerit tenetur obtemperare.