Quotes by Lawyers - Page 3

There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
James J. Walker
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
Daniel O'Connell
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
Alexander Hamilton
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.
Charles J. Ingersoll
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
With soap baptism is a good thing.
Robert G. Ingersoll
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.
Clarence S. Darrow
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.
Charles J. Ingersoll
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.
Samuel Warren
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.
Wendell L. Willkie
I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Charles Curtis
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.
Grover Cleveland
Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the malign-ers of his honor.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Daniel O'Connell
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.
Richard Nixon
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.
John G. Diefenbaker
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
The most important office is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.
John A. Macdonald
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Dean Acheson
Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference.
Richard Nixon
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.
Richard Nixon
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
Poets have a license to lie.
Pliny the Younger
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with 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 here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
The second sober thought of the people is seldom wrong and always efficient.
Martin Van Buren