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A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a read more
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
No one has a right to happiness.
No one has a right to happiness.
The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent read more
The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of read more
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the read more
The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
