Dead Man Statute

Famous quotes containing the words dead, man and/or statute:

“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

“The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)