It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.


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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO
A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO