"If we can't get a voter-approved constitutional amendment, we'll just legislate one"
@npfandos@DavidLat@nydems NY Court of Appeals: "This isn't the Roberts SCOTUS. We're here to judge cases and resolve legal questions, not rack up mileage":
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.