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Quotes by Lawyer
"In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
9
"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."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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"Education is the mother of leadership."
9
"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other."
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"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."
9
"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
9
"I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation."
9
"Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history."
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"If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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"I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility."
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"So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered."
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"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left."
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"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."
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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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"One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities."
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"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."
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"You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people."
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"It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made."
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"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
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"You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last."
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"I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec."
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