Quotes from authors that died on Feb 3rd
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
Henry James Sumner Maine
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
Henry James Sumner Maine
A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
Audrey Meadows
Samuel Fuller 
George Eliot 
Brian Setzer 
Edsger Dijkstra 
Jack Black 
Robin Williams 
Freddie Mercury 
Naomi Campbell