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Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into...

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Paule Marshall: My very first...

Paule Marshall: My very first...

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her...

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom...

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Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Source: In The Harper...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Appear at places...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Appear at places...

Appear at places which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not...

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Philip Guedalla: Autobiography is an...

Philip Guedalla: Autobiography is an...

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

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William Blackstone: It is better...

William Blackstone: It is better...

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Source:...

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Byron R White: To exclude all...

Byron R White: To exclude all...

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to...

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Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . . You'll still find...

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Orison Swett Marden: If you do...

Orison Swett Marden: If you do...

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a...

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Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never...

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Thurgood Marshall: Today's Constitution is...

Thurgood Marshall: Today's Constitution is...

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those...

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Harry A Blackmun: It is precisely...

Harry A Blackmun: It is precisely...

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that...

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Louis Brandeis: Our government ....

Louis Brandeis: Our government ....

Our government . . . teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds...

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Christa McAuliffe: What are we...

Christa McAuliffe: What are we...

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.

Source: In Time, 10 Feb...

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Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain...

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is...

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George Bancroft: The public is...

George Bancroft: The public is...

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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