Quote of the Day for 2016-05-14

"Fate will not be confined by paragraphs."

— Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) On the limitations of written constitutions. Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg (1946)

American hostages are paraded before the news media after Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran (November 4, 1979)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-23

"To the end, it may be a government of laws and not of men."

— John Adams (1735-1826) Constitution of Massachusetts, part 1, article 30 (1780)

Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney during a farewell ceremony for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon (December 15, 2006) Photograph by Stefan Zaklin