Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Abdiel in Act III, sc. iii; p. 80.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original: (fr) XXXIII. Les délits des mandataires du peuple doivent être sévèrement et facilement punis. Nul n'a le droit de se prétendre plus inviolable que les autres citoyens.
Source: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proposed by Maximilien Robespierre" (24 April, 1793)
“You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”
William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) American newspaper publisher
Alleged cable to illustrator Frederic Remington while Hearst was covering the Cuban War of Independence (1898). Campbell, W. Joseph (Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C.) questions the sources of the alleged quote in both his books Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies (2003), p. 72 and Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (2016), also in a respective blog entry https://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/furnish-the-war-media-myth-infiltrates-npr-tribute-to-evelyn-waughs-scoop/.
“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IX, 7
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 7.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793) British judge
When asked by an army officer, appointed governor of a west Indies island and who had no experience in law, how to apply the law. Quoted by John Cordy Jeaffreson in A Book About Lawyers http://books.google.com/books?id=lUpqPJSlBS8C&q="tut+man+decide+promptly+but+never+give+any+reasons+for+your+decisions+your+decisions+may+be+right+but+your+reasons+are+sure+to+be+wrong"&pg=PA85#v=onepage, Volume 1 (1867).
