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Quotes by Lawyer
"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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"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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"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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"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
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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 focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
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"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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"I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world."
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"The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
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"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?"
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"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
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"I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president."
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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head."
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"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."
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"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
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"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
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"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
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"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
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"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it."
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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
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"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."
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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
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"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."
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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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"This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents."
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"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."
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"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."
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"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
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"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
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"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
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"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
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