"If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process."

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Source : "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

Felix Frankfurter

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Law Quotes

“Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.”

Source : William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.
“When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."”
“It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.”
“I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.”
“Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.”
“I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Daughters arenâ€™t to be independent. Theyâ€™re not to act outside the scope â€¨of their father. As long as theyâ€™re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters canâ€™t just go out â€¨independently and say, â€˜Iâ€™m going to marry whoever I want.â€™ No. The father has â€¨the ability to say, â€˜No, Iâ€™m sorry, that has to be approved by me.â€™”
“I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.”

Source : “Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'” by Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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