Quotes by lawyer

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.