Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
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—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Look, we are all reasonable men here. We don’t have to give assurances, as if we were lawyers.”
—Mario Puzo (b. 1920)