#persons

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#case #confidential #confidentiality #continue #domain

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ↗

— Don Marquis

#likeable #persons #some #spite #their

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it." STATE OF WONDER ↗

— Ann Patchett

#grief #missing-persons #death

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗

— George Bancroft

#best #development #few #free #government

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#good #good nature #honor #knowledge #money

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#going #hanged #i #much #persons

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

#doing #everywhere #fun #himself #humorist

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#apt #bad #generality #good #impulse