David Ruggles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have
It's an acting job - acting natural.
I'm not a natural born performer.

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