John Marshall Quote

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eye for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

quoted in Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall [1916–1919]

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eye for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eye for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eye for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eye for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.