When This Blows Over

To the press alone, chequered as it is with
abuses, the world is indebted for all the
triumphs which have been gained by reason
and humanity over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson,
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, 1799
...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the
great and powerful a sufficient inducement to
turn aside from the straight path of honesty and
the convictions of my own mind.
--David Ricardo
...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent...
--Adam Smith
If I could think that I had sent a spark to those who come
after, I should be ready to say Goodbye.
--Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes