Lawyer Quotes - Page 6

• If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.485, Library of America

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• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Law, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Would Be, Tools

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.922, Library of America

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

  Giovanni Falcone

  Death, Fear, Dying

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• Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

  William Stringfellow

  Money, Idols, Sin

  William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Patriotic, Government

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• Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

  Unknown

  Gun, Usa, Goal

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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• When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision.

  P. V. Narasimha Rao

  Powerful, Thinking, Choices

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Freedom, Mistake, Failure

  "United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit". openjurist.org. May 6, 2003.

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• I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, African American, Way

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• Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers", they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Islamic, Usa

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  Dan Quayle

  Intelligence, Mind, Waste

  Dan Quayle (1995). “Standing Firm: A Vice-presidential Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

  Mike Huckabee

  God, California, People

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• We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

  John Winthrop

  Inspirational, Eye, Community

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• Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

  Ron Kuby

  Halloween, Character, Scary

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• The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Our World, Long

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• Love is the most powerful force in the world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Love, Powerful, Civilization

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

  John F. Kennedy Jr.

  Inspirational, Men, People

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

  Learned Hand

  Freedom, Lying, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Women, Successful

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