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Quotes by Lawyer
"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."
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"There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world."
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"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
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"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
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"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."
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"I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for."
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"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."
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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
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"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."
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"What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?"
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"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
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"Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them."
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"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
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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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"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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"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."
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"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
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"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."
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"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."
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"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition."
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"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
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"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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"Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed."
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"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
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"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
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