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- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Address to the jury, trial of Communists, Chicago, Illinois, 1920
- Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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