Edward-condon Quote by Carl Sagan

“There is good reason to believe that the administration of justice is infected by predictable incoherence in several domains. The evidence is drawn in…

— Daniel Kahneman

“They say that at Thomas More’s trial, Master Secretary here followed the jury to their deliberations, and when they were seated he closed the…

— Hilary Mantel

“The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.”

— T.H. White

“Trials in life can either purify or corrupt us. Trials are temporary”

— Marion Bekoe

“One of the first trials he assisted with dealt with the conspiracy charges leveled against Aaron Burr, the former Vice President under Thomas Jefferson.”

— Charles River Editors

“Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that…

— Noam Chomsky

“What is abundantly clear is that witch hunts did not begin with witches, and are thus not avoided by making ourselves harmless or integrating…

— Peter Grey

“A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits…

— Ross Cheit

“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed…

— Ross Cheit

“I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss…

— Umberto Eco

“At this, Hamilton dropped any pose of civility and chastised Monroe, saying “your representation is totally false.”

— Ron Chernow