Compensation Case

Famous quotes containing the words compensation and/or case:

    “The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Massachusetts sat waiting Mr. Loring’s decision.... It was really the trial of Massachusetts. Every moment that she hesitated to set this man free, every moment that she now hesitates to atone for her crime, she is convicted. The commissioner on her case is God; not Edward G. God, but simply God.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)