Protect and Defend Quotes

“Are you a consumer or producer?”
― Richard North Patterson, Protect and Defend

“a Supreme Court which is careless of the law can diminish respect for law. But there are clearly times when what might have been acceptable to Thomas Jefferson becomes unacceptable to us, and whether in 1954 Jefferson might have made Sally Hemings drink at the water fountain marked ‘Coloreds Only’ becomes irrelevant. At best.”
― Richard North Patterson, Protect and Defend

“A child at risk made trust a luxury, each day uncertain, the mere sound of a telephone ringing a reason to flinch.”
― Richard North Patterson, Protect and Defend

“I’ve become leery of religious advocacy for laws which only value a ‘life’ until it’s born.”
― Richard North Patterson, Protect and Defend

“Whoever imagined that ours was a government of laws and not men,”
― Richard North Patterson, Protect and Defend