#historical

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. ↗

— Diane Watson

#been #branch #groups #historically #judicial

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#fact #granted #historical #historical fact #just

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#country #english #figures #historical #i

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#ireland #norway #slaves #vikings #historical-fiction

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England ↗

— Lauren Willig

#historical-fiction #lauren-willig #spy #historical-fiction

I am a slave in your palace." - Sultan Suleyman Khan, Suleyman the Magnificent, The Shadow of God on Earth. ↗

— P.J. Parker

#roxelana #historical-fiction

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. ↗

— M.C. Halliday

#historical #memoir #life

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor. ↗

— Robert Harris

#nazi #men