Erik Bell

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”
― Justice Frankfurter

“Yet the extravagant enthusiasm for profit persisted among businessmen. In the spring of 1969 Senator Long [spoke out against] a partisan of the oil industry...[and] that further taxation of oil profits would be disastrous. Such taxes... would remove "all business inventive and lead to Thursday to Tuesday weekends, wife swapping and drinking." Without the lure of profit, work would thus become meaningless. Americans would become pagan again and evils would prevail much like those that had inflamed Captain Endicott three centuries earlier”
― Jason Epstein, The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay On Law, Liberty And The Constitution

“You cannot shoot your way a little bit into a war any more than you can go a little bit over Niagara Falls.”
― Thomas A. Bailey and Paul B. Ryan

“Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)”
― Tom Clancy