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Quotes by Lawyer
"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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"The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate."
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"Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them."
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"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."
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"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
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"Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay."
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"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."
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"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
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"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power."
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"Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice."
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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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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."
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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."
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"In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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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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"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
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"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity."
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"During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion."
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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."
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"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
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"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion."
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"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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