The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. – Henry James Sumner Maine
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. – Harriet Martineau
As always, there’s a couple of things in the pipeline – but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. – Hugh Dancy
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. – Gabriel Lippmann
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made. – Horatio Nelson
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. – Henry Charles Carey
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. – Hjalmar Schacht
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. – Henry Ward Beecher
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. – Graham Joyce
I hate war… for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
You can’t assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. – Howard Rheingold
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. – Horace Walpole
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. – Gregory David Roberts
I’m fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They’re highly mobile; they reject the idea of place. – Hari Kunzru
