"'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'"

— Susan Howatch

"They're like the grim reaper when anybody comes they just put them away with ruthless efficiency."

— Colm O'Rourke

"Where a republic demands equality, and equality tends to ensure mobility, oligarchy is about hierarchy and stasis."

— Allen C. Guelzo

"Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against…"

— Antonin Scalia

"The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, t…"

— Thomas Jefferson