"As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“I can't spare this man, he fights!”
“I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.”
More on Law
“Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”
“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”
“And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.”
More on Peace
“I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.”