Quotes by Lawyers - Page 4

Alexander Hamilton

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Life crumples me like paper,Tight, smashed, discarded. But crumpled paper soon unfolds, Opening slowly, sharing what was once hidden inside,Allowing my story to be revealed.

Robert Clifton Storey Jr

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

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Wallace Stevens

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Bovee

After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

Calvin Coolidge

Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

Chris Salamone

As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the doubtful sources of his information and the seemingly bottomless history and darkness out of which the dishes of New York emerge, the deeper grew my suspicion that his work finally consisted of minting or perpetuating and in any event circulating misconceptions about his subject and in this way adding to the endless perplexity of the world.

Joseph O'Neill

What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors? They would have all been dead. What would the people have been, if at any age of the world they had followed implicitly the direction of the church? They would have all been idiots. It is a splendid thing that there is always some grand man who will not mind, and who will think for himself. I believe in allowing the children to think for thems

Robert G. Ingersoll

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

William Jennings Bryan

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones.

Franz Kafka

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

Kenneth Eade

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Alexander Hamilton

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Montesquieu

Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents

Kalyan C. Kankanala

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

Philip K. Howard

We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

Paul Levine

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Kenneth Eade

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Robert G. Ingersoll

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

John A. Macdonald

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

Jed Rubenfeld

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

John Grisham

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart withoutbrain.

Robert G. Ingersoll

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

Alexander Hamilton

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Cicero

I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.

Bernhard Schlink

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Henry Clay

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Franz Kafka

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

Constantine E. Scaros

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Abraham Lincoln

As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.

John Grisham

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

Benjamin Harrison

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.

John G. Diefenbaker

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Michael Gilbert

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

James A. Garfield President of the United States

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird girls, then," I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and

John Adams

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Cicero

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.

Joseph Jaworski

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

Abraham Lincoln

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

Kerry Greenwood

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Thomas Hughes

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Abraham Lincoln

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Mahatma Gandhi

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Cicero

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

William Landay

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

John Warwick Montgomery

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Abraham Lincoln

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