The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. – Irving R. Kaufman

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest