"Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law."

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Source : Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”

Rufus Choate

#Equality Quotes #Law Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”
“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”
“This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.”
“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”
“Itâ€™s the people who donâ€™t worryâ€”those who never have any doubts that what theyâ€™re doing is good and rightâ€”theyâ€™re the ones that cause the problems.”
“Getting signed shouldn't be the point. I made that mistake early on and I think a lot of people do. It's not something you should rush into. I think I'm actually lucky that when I went to visit labels when I was 20 years old and played and they thought I wasn't ready, it was probably a good thing because I wasn't ready. I didn't know what I was getting intoat the time. I mean, you never know exactly what you're getting into. There's a lot of stuff that's going on right now that's new to me but there's also a lot that I'm lucky to know how to handle.”
“The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.”
“I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.”

Source : "'Tootsie' Actor Charles Durning Dead at 89" by Brandi Fowler, www.eonline.com. December 25, 2012.

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