19th-century Lawyer Quotes

Sheridan Le Fanu

Hans Kelsen

Clarence Darrow

Robert G. Ingersoll

W. E. Aytoun

John Marshall Harlan

Madison Grant

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?

William Allen Butler

That which was unknown, science hath revealed.

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Subatomic reality is a lot like that of a rainbow, whose position is defined only relative to an observer. This is not an objective property of the rainbow-in-itself but involves such subjective elements as the observer's own position. Like the rainbow, a subatomic particle becomes fully "real" only through the process of measurement.

Michael Riordan

In regard to all civil engineering, the first requisite is good judgment, the second requisite is good judgment, and the final requisite is GOOD JUDGMENT.

One said a Physitian was naturall brother to the wormes, because he was ingendered out of man's corruption.

William Carew Hazlitt

The Church by no mental contortions or intellectual gymnastics can ever reconcile the dull negative assertions of Science with the spiritual aspirations of Religion, the noble altruisms of Christianity, or the divine visions of the philosophers.

Stephen Coleridge

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

Samuel D. Warren

To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.

John Luther Long

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

Joseph H. Choate

Bishop, this is a full tithe and a little bit more, because that's the way we have been blessed.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

Dorman Bridgman Eaton

The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for—not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country.

George Frederick Baer

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Virchand Gandhi

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds.

John Marshall Harlan

How few of us have made our individual declaration of independence, and until we do that, we are not free.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

George Thorndike Angell

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

Abraham Hayward

Law is an order of human behavior. An order is a system of rules. Law is not, as it is sometimes said, a rule. It is a set of rules having the kind of unity we understand by a system. It is impossible to grasp the nature of law if we limit our attention to the single isolated rule.

Mistaken
regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

Referring to George Christian's eulogy of slavery because it was a patriarchal institution, I reminded you that polygamy and circumcision were patriarchal institutions. I forgot to say that eunuchs were also a patriarchal institution. Ask Hugh if I am not right.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

William Gilmore Simms