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Quotes by Lawyer

"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."

"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."

"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."

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."

"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."

"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

"In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything."

"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."

"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."

"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it."

"We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well."
Risk,

"Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me."

"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."

"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."

"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."

"I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit."

"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."

"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."

"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."

"When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession."

"Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God."

"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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