"[B]oth men [Hopkins & Roosevelt] had fought with death at close range, both were living on borrowed time." Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt & Hopkins: An Intimate History, Harper & Bros., 1948, NY, p. 3

"There is no greater honor than being a lawyer." Felix Frankfurter, 1960 Meeting of H.L.S. Association, Saturday Evening Banquet, Cambridge, MA

"Nobody as honorable as you ought to be practicing law."  Anthonie Voogd, 8-14-98, Pasadena, CA

"Just because they are yelling at you doesn't mean you are wrong."  Richie Garcia, major league baseball umpire, in Men At Work, by George Will

"A guy will listen to anything if he thinks its foreplay." Men At Work, Id. quoting Annie from the movie Bull Durham

"A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good one and the real one." J. Pierpont Morgan quoted at p. 114 in The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

"I hope you will not be tempted into litigation.  Life is too short for that" Letter from Junius Morgan to Pierpont, Id., p. 55

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."  Robert E. Lee, Dec. 1862, on seeing a federal charge repulsed at Fredericksburg

"War is at best barbarism....  Its glory is all moonshine.  It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengence, more desolution.  War is hell."  William Tecumseh Sherman, Graduation address at Michigan Military Academy, June 19, 1879

"I have seen war . . . I hate war."  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address at Chautauqua, NY, August 14, 1936

"War children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away."  Gimme Shelter [1969] Keith Richards

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III, i, 273.

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." John F. Kennedy, Address to the United Nations, Sept. 25, 1961

"The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know." Harry S Truman, Truman, by David McCullough (1992) p. 463

"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." Id., p. 467

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." Benjamin Disraeli [1804-1841] responding to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell