I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

There does not appear, in our view, to be any legal basis in the Belarus constitution for the action that President Lukashenko has been taking.

A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run,

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams