Quotes by Lawyers - Page 5

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
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
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
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
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
Georges Jacques Danton
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
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
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
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee
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