On the record
No better place can be found for studying that most interesting of all subjects, Man, than in our courts of justice.
Said by
Adlai Stevenson
Source
gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “No better place can be found for studying that most interesting of all subjects, Man, than in our courts of justice.”
Editor's note · Context
Stevenson reflects on the importance of understanding human nature through the legal system.
Share
More from Adlai Stevenson
America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.
We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.
It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.
Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…