Professional Lawyer Quotes

There is no place more delightful than home.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections.

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.