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Quotes by Lawyer
"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government."
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"I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas."
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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing."
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"Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution."
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"It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check."
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"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
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"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."
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"You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan."
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"In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback."
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"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."
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"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
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"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
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"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."
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"When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed."
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"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."
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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
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"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."
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"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."
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"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed."
Help,
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"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
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"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
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"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
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"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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