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- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes Laertius
- All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
- John Selden (1584 - 1654)
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