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Quotes by Lawyer
"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."
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"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."
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"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
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"And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups."
Vote,
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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
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"Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere."
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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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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."
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"Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant."
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here."
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"Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle us, and show that we have, to a certain extent, given up our individuality, and have consented to wear the collar of authority-that we are followers. Throwing away these names, let us examine these questions not as partisans, but as human beings with hopes and fears in common."
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"The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not."
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"Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul."
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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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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals."
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"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
Man,
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"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
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"No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature."
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