“Rumors confirm themselves when duly circulated.”
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"That what Everybody Says must be True".
Sketches from Life (1846)
“There’s no better strategy against a true rumor than inventing another fake one that claims to confirm it.”
Memorias de un desaparecido (1996)
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Context: An oft-heard description of the Supreme Court is that it is the ultimate protector in our society of the liberties of the individual. This phrase describes an important role of the Supreme Court, but by ignoring other equally important functions of the Court, it has a potential for mischief. It is a fairly short leap from this language to a feeling that the US Constitution is somehow "vindicated" every time a claim of individual right against government is upheld, and is not vindicated whenever such a claim is not upheld. But this, of course, cannot be the case. The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold those claims of individual liberty that it finds are well-founded in the Constitution, and to reject other claims against the government that it concludes are not well-founded. Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims.
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“What one man can invent, another can discover.”
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