“Chilcot will not be a verdict, that much is clear. However, it could still supply the damning evidence for the jury to bring a conviction in. In a triumph of hope over experience my political sense tells me to expect fireworks.”

Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1149.

Reg. v. Gibson (1887), 18 Q. B. D. 537; 16 Cox, C. C. 181.

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana (1973) by J. Neil Schulman (published in 1990)
Context: At the time I wrote Methuselah’s Children I was still politically quite naive and still had hopes that various libertarian notions could be put over by political processes… It [now] seems to me that every time we manage to establish one freedom, they take another one away. Maybe two. And that seems to me characteristic of a society as it gets older, and more crowded, and higher taxes, and more laws. I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces — with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

television address (4 March 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Still Crazy After All These Years
Song lyrics, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)

1770, p. 182
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

America...You Kill Me

Source: Burning All Illusions (1996), p. 36