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Quotes by Lawyer
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."
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"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur."
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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
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"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."
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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
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"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May,
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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
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"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."
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"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."
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"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
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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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"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
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"You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that."
Talk,
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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
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"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."
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"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
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"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."
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"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
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"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
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