"The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.97, A&C Black
“I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.”
“And the whole is greater than the part.”

Source : "Euclid's Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8". Book by Euclid,
“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”
“I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.”
“NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.”
“No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!”
“Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.”

Source : Letter, 10 April (1851)

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