Tao Te Ching

“Bei Zhu was able to contest this case forcefully at court and did not pretend acquiescence. If every matter is handled this way, what cause will there be to worry about misgovernment?”

— Sima Guang 司马光 1019 – 1086 CE via Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom

"Greatest of all Chinese historians”
from Book of History