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"The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions."

"It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation than what the occupation is which they select."

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🇺🇸Ketanji Brown Jackson

Law

b. 1970

"Robert Mueller Testimony before House Intelligence Committee"

"I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition."

"Mustafa Abdul Jalil collected news and commentary at The Times of India"

"I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind."

"I formed the conviction that there is no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. Conflicts are created, conducted and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings."

"Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms."

"Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers."

"When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them."

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🇺🇸Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law

1933–2020

"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."

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🇮🇷Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri

Politics

1944–2020

"Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism. They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist."

"The body of the legal system needs a soul and sometimes even an additional soul"

"Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is."

"Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood."

"For the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church I am ready to embrace death."

"A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on."

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Literature

1796–1865

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

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🇫🇷Jacques Pierre Brissot

Social Activism

1754–1793

"It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it."

"The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not."

"The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."

"I was nurtured in the school of the rifle and the tomahawk"

"There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages."

"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents."

"Acts of hostility shall be intended matters of force."

"Is it true, then, that unless there had been a separation from the North, slavery would be abolished in Georgia? I address myself to the proofs of that case."

"It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that."

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🇦🇷Julio César Strassera

Law

1933–2015

"There exist no provisions in our law that perfectly and precisely describe the form of criminality that shall be judged here."

"Secrets have power over us. Only when secrets are revealed can truth be known and freedom brought about."

"You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker."

"Statue of Quincy at the Old City Hall in Boston"

"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."

"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."

"The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior."

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James Fitzjames Stephen

Law

1829–1894

"Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind."

"Because I can understand the English language. It is my mother tongue."

"The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience."

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