top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Lawyer
"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."
17
"Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."
17
"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world."
16
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
16
"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."
15
"When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference."
15
"The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly."
15
"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
15
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
15
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
15
"It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others."
15
"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
15
"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
14
"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."
14
"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."
14
"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
14
"Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared."
13
"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
13
"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."
13
"After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion."
13
"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."
13
"Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law."
13
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
13
"I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States."
13
"The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference."
13
"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
Idea,
13
"Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant."
13
"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
13
"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."
13
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
13
"Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time."
13
bottom of page