The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.


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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass o...
ERNEST RENAN
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
ERNEST RENAN
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
ERNEST DIMNET
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
ERNEST JONES
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplis...
ERNEST RENAN
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
ERNEST BENN
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY