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Quotes by Lawyer

"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."

"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."

"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."

"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment."

"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

"We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing."

"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."

"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."

"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."

"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."

"We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach."

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county."

"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."
Men,

"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."

"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."

"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."
Hate,

"Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads."

"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."

"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."

"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not."

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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