An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection.

Henry Peter Brougham

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Brougham, Henry Peter. Argument at trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. House of Lords meeting. c. 1820, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.