Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. Vol. 1, J. Dodsley, 1774, p. 415.
The Supreme Court was hearing a redistricting case. The Georgia legislature and voted to approve a map showing the new districts. Some of the districts were so torturously drawn, that two non-contiguous areas were put in the same district and connected by an area in between that was so thin, it only included a state highway and its right of way where there were of course no voters. Justice O’Conner and other justices thought the map itself was sufficient grounds to reject the redistricting plan, though there was much other evidence as well.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.
