Zechariah Chafee Quotes

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

The best survey of the spirit and practice of the laws of Massachusetts Bay is found in Zechariah Chafee Jr.’s brilliant introduction to the Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671–1680, in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications, Vol. XXIX.

The Ethics professor, Zechariah Chafee, taught me about tolerance and the need to treat all human beings justly. This doesn’t only mean the people who look and sound like you, your countrymen and neighbors, nor does it mean only law-abiding citizens – this means everyone.