Quotes by Lawyers - Page 7

Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.
Franz Kafka
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Abraham Lincoln
Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield
Hatred is settled anger.
Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Christian Bovee
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
Franz Kafka
False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu
To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
My creed is that: 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 make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
Richard Nixon
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.
Louis Brandeis
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
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
Abraham Lincoln
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
Abraham Lincoln
The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.
Clarence C. Manion
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Jerry Brown
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 and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln
We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
Charles Evans Hughes
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
Thomas E. Dewey
In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
W. J. Bryan
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Charles J. Ingersoll
We trust Sir that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
Abraham Lincoln
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes