
“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 9, p. 113.
“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”
Alan Axelrod in an interview with Frank R. Shaw, Aug 23, 2007 http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/axelrod.htm.
Fabio Cannavaro, 2014 http://www.paristeam.fr/interviews/cannavaro-encense-thiago-silva-l-italien-fait-l-eloge-du-bresilien-12797.htm
From former and current footballers
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79 (1965)
Context: To summarize, we hold that, when an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning, the privilege against self-incrimination is jeopardized. Procedural safeguards must be employed to protect the privilege, and unless other fully effective means are adopted to notify the person of his right of silence and to assure that the exercise of the right will be scrupulously honored, the following measures are required. He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.
“He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”
Part 1, chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=eWU4AAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+is+only+one+enduring+happiness+in+life+to+live+for+others%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage
Family Happiness (1859)
Variant: There is only one enduring happiness in life— to live for others.
But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
“Where a man has but one remedy to come at his right, if he loses that he loses his right.”
2 Raym. Rep. 954.
Ashby v. White (1703)