"I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order."

-- Erle Stanley Gardner

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“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child”

Source : Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber
“Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.”
“My life was over, finished, and Iâ€™d never seen Pearl Jam play live”
“Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.”

Source : "Talking to Sam Heughan About Sweat, Sheep Dipping, and Outlander Spoilers". Interview with Estelle Tang, www.elle.com. September 23, 2016.
“We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.”

Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387
“I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.”

Source : "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.

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