"I will make a Star-chamber matter of..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
More by William Shakespeare
“Think'st thou it honourable for a noble manStill to remember wrongs?”
“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.”
“Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces”
More on Law
“Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?”
“In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.”
“Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.”
More on Authority
“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.”
“There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
“Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.”