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Quotes by Lawyer
"When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were."
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"Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President."
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"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."
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"The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects."
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"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
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"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
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"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights."
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"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations."
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"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
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"Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race."
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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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"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom."
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"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
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"I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference."
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"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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"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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"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
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"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
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"There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect."
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"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."
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"Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information."
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"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason."
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"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
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"We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach."
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"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
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"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."
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"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."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."
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"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."
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"As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred."
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"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
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