Vincent Lombardo

“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”
― Groucho Marx

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
― Harry S. Truman

“People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.”
― Eric Foner