Professional Lawyer Quotes

Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

Where there is love there is life.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

One of the most influential people in my life, in addition to my mother, was my grandfather P.V. Gopalan, who actually held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

There's no straight line to progress.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.[Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.