Lloyd Paul Stryker famous quotes

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.
-- Lloyd Paul Stryker

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Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.
-- Lloyd Paul Stryker

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A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.
-- Lloyd Paul Stryker

#Enthusiasm #Judgment #Instinct

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife

The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.