Law

🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands]."

Plato

Philosophy

Platonism

"No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow."

🇺🇸Robert G. Ingersoll

Law

agnosticism

1833–1899

"I like Voltaire, because for half a century he was the intellectual emperor of Europe. I like him, because from his throne at the foot of the Alps he pointed the finger of scorn at every hypocrite in Christendom."

🇺🇸Louis Brandeis

Law

1856–1941

"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

🇺🇸Kellyanne Conway

Politics

b. 1967

"You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it."

🇺🇸Robert Mueller

Law

b. 1944

"The problem with training is it's the last thing on the budget list. It's the first thing to get cut. And it should not be."

"Besides the importance of land and religion, the existence of a specific religion among a distinct group of people is probably a fundamental element of human experience."

🇨🇦Kristin Kreuk

Law

b. 1982

"Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed."

🇺🇸Ketanji Brown Jackson

Law

b. 1970

"Robert Mueller Testimony before House Intelligence Committee"

🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

🇺🇸Cory Booker

Politics

b. 1969

"Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through some accident of history, but they were the conscious creation ."

🇺🇸Aaron Judge

Law

b. 1992

"It was fun. It was fun coming to the ballpark and competing with these guys. If we were down, if we were up, it didn’t matter. We were always having fun. It was a joy."

🇺🇸Josh Hawley

Politics

b. 1979

"I will never apologise for giving voice to the millions of Missourians and Americans who have concerns about the integrity of our elections. That's my job, and I will keep doing it."

🇺🇸Benjamin N. Cardozo

Law

1870–1938

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

Ur-Nammu

Law

"Site drawings of the temple built by Ur-Nammu at Ur to the moon god Nanna."

"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."

"Ever since Comte first set the agenda of social science, his megalomania lingers on in sociology, political science, and other disciplines."

🇺🇸Potter Stewart

Law

1915–1985

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."

Huang Kuo-chang

Law

b. 1973

"This is not the first time a branch of the executive has refused to answer questions from the legislative body using that excuse and I am sure it will not be the last."

🇺🇸Robert Hayne

Law

1791–1839

"Sir, there have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men—the lovers of freedom, and the devoted advocates of power."

🇬🇧Sir Francis Buller

Law

1746–1800

"If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors."

🇬🇧John Eardley Wilmot

Law

1709–1792

"The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife."

Salwa Bughaighis

Law

1963–2014

"These are people who want to foil elections... has been always defiant, and always will be despite the pain and fear. It will succeed."

🇺🇸Brooks Adams

Philosophy

1848–1927

"Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation."

🇺🇸Rufus Choate

Law

1799–1859

"The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself."

🇺🇸Glenn Greenwald

Law

b. 1967

"Over the pasty decades, the fear of terrorism—stoked by consistent exaggerations of the actual threat—has been exploited by US leaders to justify a weird array of extremist policies."

🇺🇸William H. Pryor Jr.

Law

b. 1962

"I considered Roe to be the abomination because it involves abortion, involves, from my perspective, the killing of innocent, unborn children."

🇺🇸Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

Law

1903–1964

"In fact, the drive against the Communists is aimed, above all, against the labor movement."

"There ... a list of five tests which any body of doctrine which aspires to the name of economic theory must be able to meet:"

🇺🇸Alexander Acosta

Law

b. 1969

"I am deeply grateful and honored for the opportunity to serve my country. I thank the President and his staff for their confidence in me and I am eager to work tirelessly on behalf of the American worker"

🇺🇸Theodore Winthrop

Law

1828–1861

"Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism."