“Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.”
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10978-2003Apr11, April 13, 2003.
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Songs of the Soul (1971)
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Attributed in: R. Scott Peoples (2007) Crusade of Kings. p. 13
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
Attributed to Bentham in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949) by Evan Esar, p. 29; no earlier sources for this have been located.
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Response to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, as quoted in TIME magazine (1 November 1963)
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