Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.


Sir John Powell

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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD
It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD
The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD
The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL
We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influen...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as...
LUCY POWELL
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
NATE POWELL
Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
NATE POWELL
Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full...
NATE POWELL
There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ...
NATE POWELL
My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ...
NATE POWELL
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l...
NATE POWELL
The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b...
NATE POWELL
There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own...
NATE POWELL
Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL
Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta...
NATE POWELL
I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w...
NATE POWELL
I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,...
NATE POWELL
I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr...
NATE POWELL
The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#...
NATE POWELL
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between...
NATE POWELL
My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ...
NATE POWELL
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for...
LUCY POWELL
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straig...
DAWN POWELL
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL