"Laws that do not embody public opinion..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.”

“Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.”

“History: a collection of epitaphs.”

“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“The popular breeze - Aura popularis”

“There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois.”

“It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.”