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Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 1, ch. 10, sect. 80.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Charlotte Whitton

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Whitton, Charlotte. Canada Month. June 1963.

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Blair, Tony. Addressing Labour MPs on the first day of the new Parliment. 7 May 1977, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst,
Rees, and Orme, 1805, canto 6, st. 2.

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Greenspan, Alan. "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society." The Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. 5 Dec. 1996, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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James, Henry. "The Ambassadors." North American Review, 1903.

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James, Henry. The Ambassadors, edited by Christopher Butler. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Address accepting the presidential nomination. Democratic National Convention. 27 Aug. 1964, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Addison's Cato." Cato, written by Joseph Addison. 14 Apr. 1713, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK, I. 1-5.

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato." Pope: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). Everyman's Library, 2018, I. 1-5.

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Sinclair, Upton. "The Jungle." Appeal to Reason, 25 Feb. 1905-4 Nov. 1905.

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Sinclaire, Upton. The Jungle. Dover Publications, 2001, ch. 3.

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Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

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Murray, Bill. Interviewed by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 10 Feb. 2014.

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

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More, Hannah. Christian Morals. Vol. 2, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

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Levenson, Jam. Quoted in Ada Weekly News. 6 Apr. 1961.

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Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 10 Sept. 1918.

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Clay, Henry. Address in the Senate. Senate meeting. 29 Jan. 1850, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Skin of Our Teeth. 15 Oct. 1942, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, act 1.

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Wilder, Thornton. "The Skin of Our Teeth." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 1.