Norman Douglas

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.