Ari Johnson. Quotes.

Individuality

Laurence Sterne: I should beg Mr. Horace's pardon;--for in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to his rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived. (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; Chap. IV)

Bette Midler: Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cause you're really a yawn if it goes.

Work

Thomas Jefferson: I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Enemies

Winston Churchill: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.: My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adversity

Winston Churchill: If you're going through hell, keep going.

The Constitution

Antonin Scalia: We go beyond our proper role as judges in a democratic society when we restrict the people's power to govern themselves over the full range of policy choices that the Constitution has left available to them. Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83, 98-99 (1998) (Scalia, J., concurring).

Robert H. Jackson: We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. United States v. Spector, 343 U.S. 169, 180 (1952) (Jackson, J., dissenting).

Law

Robert H. Jackson: When the [United States Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. (The Supreme Court in the American System of Government)

Antonin Scalia: Any lawyer who gave that advice ... ought to have been either disbarred or committed. United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 594-595 (1996) (Scalia, J., dissenting).