January 8, 2018

For all judges, sovereign or subordinate, if they refuse to hear proof, refuse to do justice; for though the sentence be just, yet the judges that condemn without hearing the proofs offered are unjust judges and their presumption is but prejudice. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

January 4, 2018

All ages shall speak with amaze and applause Of the courage we’ll show in support of our laws To die we can bear – but to serve we disdain For shame is to freemen more dreadful than pain. John Dickinson, “The Liberty Song” a Revolutionary War Era poem