Persons Generally

Famous quotes containing the words persons and/or generally:

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)

“While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings—upon the spirit that animates mankind.”
—Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)