“Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.”
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“You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.”
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
“Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.”
“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”
“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
“Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.”
“I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.”
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
“No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.”
“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.”
“Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?”
“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.”
“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”
“One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
“Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.”
“There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.”
“Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?”
“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.”