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Quotes by Lawyer
"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
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"To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight."
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"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
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"I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon."
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"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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"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
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"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."
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"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue."
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
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"I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility."
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"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."
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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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"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."
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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
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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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"Teaching civility is an obligation of the family."
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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
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"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress."
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"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion."
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"The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing."
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"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death."
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"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."
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"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,
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"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."
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"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."
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