Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 95
My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
Adrianne Palicki
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
Marshall Field
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der Post
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.
Jonathan Ames
Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?
Alfred Kazin
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
Kathleen Turner
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.
Charles Sumner
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes
When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.
Samuel Alito
What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?
Inga Muscio
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.
