Quotes by Lawyers - Page 4

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
The best prophet of the future is the past.
John Sherman
Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Max Ehrmann
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.
Calvin Coolidge
When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'
John A. Macdonald
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.
Howell Heflin
Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce Kennedy
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
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