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“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

“Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don’t need them and the bad people don’t follow them, so what good are they?” –Ammon Hennacy

“Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made”. –Otto von Bismarck