#th

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

#every #good #individual #interested #more

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#course #else #everyone #everything #got

I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#believe #big #brooklyn #crap #ever

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#character #does #drawing #great #his

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. ↗

— Mike DeWine

#choice #choices #decisions #every #face

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. ↗

— William Blackstone

#community #even #general #general good #good

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ↗

— William Blackstone

#been #bulwark #defense #england #ever

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ↗

— Alice Stone Blackwell

#both #cannot #chivalry #justice #than