thanks, dad
"The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles, by enshrining them in constitutions, and consecrating to the task of their protection a body of defenders."
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven, 1921)
In an email sent long ago.
More about discussing Anthony Burgess and going through old scrapbooks and forgiving fathers and throwing out papers later... after I've done at least one of those things.
"The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles, by enshrining them in constitutions, and consecrating to the task of their protection a body of defenders."
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven, 1921)
In an email sent long ago.
More about discussing Anthony Burgess and going through old scrapbooks and forgiving fathers and throwing out papers later... after I've done at least one of those things.
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