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- Nov 07, 2020
Dock Quotes
Reflective lines on trials, harbors, and roots
These dock quotes weigh the writer's responsibility to bring judges down into the dock alongside a nervous nod to wearing a tie while facing years in the authority's courtroom.
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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
- Ghosts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.
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- Nov 07, 2020