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Quotes by Lawyer
"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
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"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."
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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
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"Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time."
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"I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed."
Job,
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"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
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"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."
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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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"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth."
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"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."
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"The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects."
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"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
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"I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended."
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"I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."
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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."
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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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"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
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"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
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"Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day."
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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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"If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe."
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"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right."
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"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
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"A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you."
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