“An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.”

“Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.”

“The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.”

“Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.”

“To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.”

“Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.”

“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.”

“Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.”