Famous quotes containing the words error and/or protection:
“Knowledge, like matter, [my father] would affirm, was divisible in infinitum;Mthat the grains and scruples were as much a part of it, as the gravitation of the whole world.In a word, he would say, error was error,no matter where it fell,whether in a fraction,or a pound,twas alike fatal to truth.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
—James Madison (17511836)
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