Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The power to tax is the power to destroy.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'We were driven off like rats in five minutes.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.' Read More Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Paul Eldridge: 'In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The power to tax is the power to destroy.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 John Marshall: 'To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'We were driven off like rats in five minutes.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 Roger Sherman: 'All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.' Read More
Herodotus 1/17/24 Herodotus 1/17/24 George Mason: 'The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.' Read More