The Defendant

The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

My country, right or wrong,'is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ' My mother, drunk or sober.