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Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep… an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home… [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial."
tucker carlson— Slate magazine, 17 July 1997
So, Damocles, since this life delights you, do you wish to taste it yourself and make trial of my fortune?
dionysius i of syracuse— As quoted by Cicero, in Tusculan disputations 5.61 as translated by Gavin Betts
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
Max Born— Experiment and Theory in Physics (1943), p. 44
At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don’t need to falter.
james macdonald— p. 109 (Always True (Moody, 2011))
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
william james— Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
george mason— Article 11 (Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776))
Flight, or an escape from arrest for felony, is an acknowledgment of guilt . . . every man, who is accused, is bound to submit himself to the judgment of the law; and, whether it be a trespass, or whether it be a felony with which he is charged, it may, with truth, be said of him who shrinks from trial facinus fatetur qui judicium fugit.
— Day, J., Johnson's Case (1805), 29 How. St. Tr. 192.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
— Mahatma Gandhi, "An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth", Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II. [5]
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
thomas fuller— Thomas Fuller, Proverbs (1732), p. 116.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
A man who has no office to go toI don't care who he isis a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw— 1880 The Irrational Knot, ch.18.
For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Our system is too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people.
warren e. burger— Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Los Vegas (February 12, 1984).
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
hermann göring— To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The day of the last hypothesis would be also the day of the last observation... An hypothesis displaced by new facts dies an honorable death. If it has itself summoned to its trial the facts by which it is annihilated, it deserves even a monument of gratitude.
jacob henle— Handbook of Rational Pathology, 1846-1853
Roman Pola?ski at the Internet Movie Database Media coverage of the Pola?ski rape trial
Roman Polanski— interview with Samantha Geimer
I saw within the wheelwright’s shedThe big round cartwheels, blue and red;A plough with blunted share;A blue tin jug; a broken chair;And paint in trial patchwork squareSlapping up against the wall;The lumber of the wheelwright’s trade,And tools on benches neatly laid,The brace, the adze, the awl;
vita sackville-west— "Making Cider", p. 100
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
william whewell— Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Lecture 7. (1852)
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
thomas fuller— Proverbs (1732), p. 116.
In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
john f. kennedy— John F. Kennedy: "Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Civic Auditorium, Seattle, WA," September 6, 1960. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley.
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial"
ariel sharon— March 25, 2001 BBC
The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.
harlan f. stone— Reported variously, including in Harris v. State, 632 So. 2d 503, 543 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992), Judge Mark Montiel, dissenting. Original source not found.
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
— John Milton, in Areopagitica (1644).
Pray, pray, thou who also weepest, And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think, the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fourfold Aspect.
I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan (12 November 1816). The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 43-44.
— Widely paraphrased as "I hope we shall crush...", without reference to an example.
It is infinitely better that a cause should be tried upon a view had by any twelve than by six of the first twelve; or by any six; or by fewer than six; or even without any view at all, than that the trial should be delayed from year to year, perhaps for ever: it can never be proper or necessary to grant a view which is asked and used for so unjust a purpose.
— Lord Mansfield (1765), 1 Burr. Part IV. 254.
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
— Evelle J. Younger, California Attorney General, Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1971.
Oh, how often our all-wise Master puts us into a deep pit ot trial, to subdue our pride, or to tame our passions, or to break our stubborn self-will. Blessed is he who can look up into the countenance of Jesus, and honestly say: " Master, my rebellious self is dead, that Thou mayest live in me, and that 1 may live for Thee and Thee alone."
— Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 586. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
— Evelle J. Younger, California Attorney General, Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1971.
