No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215
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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCEverything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbCurse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750