Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Vartan Gregorian

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Warren Buffett

Never depend on a single source of income.

Walter Russell

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

Francois Bourguignon

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Vincent Bugliosi

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Sandra Day O'Connor

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Dan Peitz

If Lawyer Ron runs his race, then we're all probably running for second. He's been very impressive.