Abraham Lincoln Quotes, People Quotes, Honor Quotes

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

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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.

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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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