Political Office
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen" Associate Justice Louis Brandeis A...
Category: Maxims
Not Old
"You're not old, you're "chronologically gifted." Thank you to Terry Campbell, Pueblo Grande Museum (Ret) for...
Publicity
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.” Associate Justice Louis...
Light
“Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Associate...
The Law
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” Associate Justice Louis...
Laboratories of Democracy
“The States may serve as the laboratories of democracy.” Justice Louis Brandeis March is sunset month...
Tradition
"Tradition is really peer pressure from dead people." Thanks to Anthony R for this excellent recast of an old...
Obligations
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson Our...
Bad Policy
"Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for...
Sin
"It is not a sin to be poor. It is a sin to be cheap" Another Inukshuk from the Merced River series. There was...
