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Quotes by Lawyer

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

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."

"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."

"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."

"A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world."

"I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution."

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"

"As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race."

"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."

"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."

"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed."
Help,

"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."

"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
Man,

"But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security."

"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."

"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."

"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."

"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations."

"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."

"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."

"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."

"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."

"There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause."

"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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