In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms. . . that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.
The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the job description. But you turn around and criticize them, and that's not permitted in the vacuum in which they live. They have free rein over you, because I guess this is how they define their constitutional responsibility. And since they have constitutional recognition, somehow they've all been taught at journalism school that nobody may assail them, that nobody may criticize them.
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy. . . I really tortured myself.
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
