The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief

Quote by Roger Rosenblatt

Topics: Belief Quotes, Potential Quotes, Right Quotes

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights;...

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights;...

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind....

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind....

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make...

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make...

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no...

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no...

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any...

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow,...

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow,...

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who...

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who...

We read to know we are not alone.

We read to know we are not alone.

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be...

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you...

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

Daydreaming while you're reading, then having to re-read what you just read.

Daydreaming while you're reading, then having to re-read what you just read.