Quotes
Quotes about Men
Maka le wakanâthe land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.]
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.
All my possessions for a moment of time
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
