Quotes by Lawyers

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.
Manel Loureiro
It was like the beginning of the end of the world.
Kenneth Eade
What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked,” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.
Kenneth Eade
I was born in the house my father built.
Richard M. Nixon
In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life she for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patricia Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She did not turn into a revolutionary. She turned into her mother.
Jeffrey Toobin
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism
Alexander Hamilton
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.
Glenn Greenwald
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Glenn Greenwald
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
Glenn Greenwald
We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.
Kenneth Eade
When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!
Kenneth Eade
The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
John Jay Osborn Jr.
Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.
Abraham Lincoln
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Gandhi
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in the air, the wind that finally whirled away the dust that society had permitted to settle over the horrors of the past. We made sure people could see. And we placed no reliance on legal scholarship. It was evident to us that there had to be convictions. It was just as evident as conviction of this or that camp guard or police enforcer was only the prelude. The generation that had been served by the guards and enforcers, or had done nothing to stop them, or had not banished them from its midst as it could have done after 1945, was in the dock, and we explored it, subjected it to trial by daylight, and condemned it to shame.
Bernhard Schlink
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.
Cicero
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
Dean Acheson
Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons he would lose his angels.
Dakin Williams
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Cicero
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
Abraham Lincoln
If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Cicero
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Cicero
When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
There will be no veterans of World War III.
Walter Mondale
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Cicero
It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.
Thomas R. Marshall
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
Cicero
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Cicero
Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
Abraham Lincoln
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.
Calvin Coolidge
When the president does it that means it is not illegal.
Richard Nixon
Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.
John Adams
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
John Adams
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.
James Buchanan
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'
Abraham Lincoln
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.
Calvin Coolidge
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Abraham Lincoln
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
Cicero
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
Edward Coke
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee