Persons

Famous quotes containing the word persons:

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)

“There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)