The author Rex Stout put some great lines in the mouths of some of his characters. This is from the book Gambit, the Bantam paperback edition, c.1962, 8th printing (1975), page 34. The detective Nero Wolfe is growing tired of a man named Mr. Hausman who is asking him unanswerable questions, like "how far can you be trusted?" From Wolfe's response:
...But this is fatuous. Do you hope to determine my quality by asking banal and offensive questions? You must know that a man can have only one invulnerable loyalty, loyalty to his own concept of the obligations of manhood. All other loyalties are merely deputies of that one.
Hmmmm.
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Nero Wolfe on the Supreme Court? Not an unpleasant fantasy at that, now that you mention it... :-)
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