Quotes on Umpires

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.