The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to... associate with me who does not wish me near them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Abbe Goussault, a counsellor at High Court, writes [at the end of the 17th century]: "Familiarizing oneself with one's childre...n, getting them to talk about all manner of things, treating them as sensible people and winning them over with sweetness, is an infallible secret for doing what one wants with them. . . . A few caresses, a few little presents, a few words of cordiality and trust make an impression on their minds, and they are few in number that resist these sweet and easy methods of making them persons of honour and probity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, ...to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, n...ot the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd ne...ver know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So we took leave of Cape Cod and its inhabitants. We liked the manners of the last, what little we saw of them, very much. They we...re particularly downright and good-humored. The old people appeared remarkably well preserved, as if by the saltness of the atmosphere, and after having once mistaken, we could never be certain whether we were talking to a coeval of our grandparents, or to one of our own age. They are said to be more purely the descendants of the Pilgrims than the inhabitants of any other part of the State. We were told that "sometimes, when the court comes together at Barnstable, they have not a single criminal to try, and the jail is shut up." It was "to let" when we were there. Until quite recently there was no regular lawyer below Orleans. Who, then, will complain of a few regular man-eating sharks along the Back Side?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not wish to believe that the courts were made for fair weather, and for very civil cases merely; but think of leaving it to a...ny court in the land to decide whether more than three millions of people, in this case a sixth part of a nation, have a right to be freemen or not! But it has been left to the courts of justice, so called,--to the Supreme Court of the land,--and, as you all know, recognizing no authority but the Constitution, it has decided that the three millions are and shall continue to be slaves. Such judges as these are merely the inspectors of a pick- lock and murderer's tools, to tell him whether they are in working order or not, and there they think that their responsibility ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use th...eir best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »