“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have live...”

“The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night o...”

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could s...”

“My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.”

“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university...”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”

“Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad'...”

“I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess....”

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of li...”

“I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greates...”

“We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpret...”