Quotes by Lawyers - Page 9

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Leon Gambetta
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it they pay the penalty but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
Calvin Coolidge
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.
Richard Nixon
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton
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
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
Robert Grant
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
No man in his senses will dance.
Cicero
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William H. Seward
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
Abraham Lincoln
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
Cicero
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
Audacity more audacity always audacity.
Georges Jacques Danton
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln
Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.
John Adams
A full mind is an empty baseball bat.
Branch Rickey
Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.
Christian Bovee
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
Nathalie Sarraute
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
Calvin Coolidge
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
R. H. Dana
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.
Anonymous American Lawyer
Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
John A. Macdonald
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.
William Seward
The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.
Robert Rae
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.
Clifford Sifton
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
John G. Diefenbaker
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John G. Diefenbaker
Old Tomorrow.
Sir John A. Macdonald
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
F. R. Scott