Famous Quotes & Sayings

Learned Hand

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Charles Evans Hughes

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Joseph Story

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Stephen Breyer

We developed a system of protecting human liberty such that judges and independent judges are a necessary part of that protection.

Harold H. Greene

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

John Jay

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Stephen Breyer

Well it's fairly important that everyone have a lawyer and so we have a system that you can't convict a person without a lawyer, even if he's guilty.

Joseph Force Crater

I figured I would go into labor relations. I began to develop a labor law practice. Eventually, I focused on one primary client.

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Frank Spinner

Convict him of stupidity for not giving special treatment, but don't convict him of rape.

Kenneth Sheinberg

There's really no conviction. The market is churning. That's all it's doing is churning.

Robert Stein

If he's convicted and is forced to step down he can be replaced. The question is what happens if the trial is postponed or delayed until after the election.

Susan Collins

I am willing to travel the road wherever it leads, whether it's to the conviction or the acquittal of the president. But in order to do that, I need more evidence, ... I need witnesses and further evidence to guide me to the right destination: to get to the truth.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Toba Beta

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

Jose Saramago

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Ian Kawas

We were fairly nervous, just in the sense that we were the favorites. We're rarely the favorites.

Mark Foster

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Kevin Norrish

Markets have already priced in a fairly sizeable production cut.

Stacy Palmer

We really seem at a stage where growth is happening in a fairly spectacular way.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Wilson Mizner

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

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Dan Quayle

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,