Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoan...alyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a villain. Yet I lie, I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter.... My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree, Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, "Guilty! Guilty!" I shall despair. There is no creature loves me, And if I die no soul will pity me. And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by exi...sting saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has been... perjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »