what is the full quote, etc. by joseph choate that begins "A lawyer's aim is to establish justice...". Thanks!
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are you sure he wasn't quoting the preamble to the US Constitution?\n\n(We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,) establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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My favorite is by Abraham Lincoln:\n\n"I guess a man is just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."\n\nThen there's the common quoted:\n"Happiness is chocolate."\n\nB. Franklin said, "Every man is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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Greed. Read below about the Pardoner's Tale which is where you'll find the quote.\n\nThe Pardoner’s Tale:  Use of Verbal and Situational Irony       \n\n  \n\nIn “The Pardoner’s Tale,” Geoffrey Chaucer masterfully frames an informal homily.  Through the use of verbal and situational irony, Chaucer is able to accentuate the moral characteristics of the Pardoner.  The essence of the story is exemplified by the blatant discrepancy between the character of the storyteller and the message of his story.  By analyzing this contrast, the reader can place himself in the mind of the Pardoner in order to account for his psychology. \n\n In the Prologue of the tale, the Pardoner clearly admits that he preaches for nothing but for the greed of gain.  His sermons revolve around the biblical idea that “the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10).  Ironically, however, the Pardoner condemns the very same vice that he lives by, as he proclaims “avarice is the theme that I employ in all my sermons, to make the people free in giving pennies—especially to me”.  Thus, covetousness is both the substance of his sermons as well as the mechanism upon which he thrives. He clearly states that repentance is not the central aim of his preaching, by mentioning “my mind is fixed on what I stand to win and not upon correcting sin”. Rather, his foremost intention is to acquire as many shillings as he can in exchange for his meaningless pardons.  In this regard, one can argue that although the Pardoner is evil, he is not a dissembler.  His psychology is clearly not guided by hypocrisy because he does not conceal his intentions under false pretences. \n\n Chaucer clouds the genuine nature of the Pardoner’s psychology in ambiguity.  Upon reading the tale, the reader is left to wonder whether or not the pardoner is simply speaking out of drunkenness, or if he is truly of a malicious character.  With respect to the first condition, there is a possibility that the reason why he admits his intention in the Prologue is because he is drunk.  However, evidently, such behavior is a common practice for the Pardoner.  Thus, it is fair to say that he is prompted more by psychological tendencies than by drunkenness.  With respect to the Pardoner’s character, had he been truly vindictive, he would not have admitted his own greed at all.  Furthermore, he must possess some virtue because he understands the value of repentance.  Hence, the Pardoner’s psychology is neither tainted by drunkenness nor does it reflect an inherently evil character. \n\n The psychology of the Pardoner is actually directed by immoral habits.  Because he is so used to wheedling money out of people, it comes automatically for him.  Psychologically, the Pardoner is a clever man.  Essentially, the Pardoner envelops his sermon on avarice around a subliminal message, urging his audience to purchase his indulgences. \n\n The psychology of the Pardoner is defined by his unyielding love of money. He confesses that his morals are distorted when he states “I can denounce, indeed, the very vice I practice, which is greed”.  Yet, his impurity is not so much a result of his sins as it is a result of his reluctance to change his ways.  He, himself, needs to seek repentance and absolution from his pursuits.  The church was merely his instrument for obtaining money.  As Chaucer notes:  “Best of all he sang the offertory, for he understood that when that song was sung, then he must preach and sharpen his tongue to rake in cash, as well he knew the art, and so he sang out gaily, with full heart”. \n\n   Hence, one can note that the mind of the Pardoner is replete with subtle, contradictory nuances.  Analyzing the machinations of his thought processes, it is clear that the Pardoner does not practice what he preaches.  It is ambiguous, however, as to whether the Pardoner believes what he preaches, but just doesn’t follow his preaches or whether he doesn’t bel
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Memorable Quotes: I learned that when you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone, because you will have divine companionship and the support of good people. This same faith and cosmic companionship sustained me after my husband was assassinated, and gave me the strength to make my contribution to carrying forward his unfinished work. \n"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation." \n\n"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people." \n\n"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul."\n\n"The value of life in our cities has become as cheap as the price of a gun." \n\n"In this country. we vigorously regulate the sale of medicine and severely limit the advertising of cigarettes because of their effect on human health. But we allow virtually anyone in America to buy a gun and virtually everyone in the nation to see graphic violence." \n\n"When I say I was married to the cause, I was married to my husband whom I loved -- I learned to love, it wasn't love at first sight -- but I also became married to the cause. It was my cause, and that's the way I felt about it. So when my husband was no longer there, then I could continue in that cause, and I prayed that God would give me the direction for my life....But then I finally determined that it was the King Center, because Martin's message and his meaning were so powerful....So I felt that my role, then, was to develop an institution, to institutionalize his philosophy, his principles of nonviolence and his methodology of social change, and that's what I have spent my years doing."
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. \n\nH. L. Mencken\nUS editor (1880 - 1956)\n-------------------------\nA celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Celebrities] \n\nA cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Cynicism] \n\nA home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Laws] \n\nA poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Poetry] \n\nAll men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Lies] \n\nAll successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Journalism] \n\nAll [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nAn idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Idealism] \n\nAny man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nConscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nCriticism is prejudice made plausible. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Criticism] [Prejudice] \n\nDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Democracy] \n\nEvery decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Government] \n\nEvery normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nFor centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Religion] \n\nFor it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Trust] \n\nGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Government] \n\nI never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nIn the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nIt is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. \nH. L. Mencken \n\nIt is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. \nH. L. Mencken\n- More quotations on: [Golf] \n\nIt is inaccurate to say that I hate everyt
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try about.com's quotation site - they have all sorts of quotes
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."\n     --HERBERT SPENCER
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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL WHO CAN AFFORD IT \n\n GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT \n unfortunately that is how the law really works
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the actual quote is "you can't eat your cake and have it too." It came from the french revolution .."let them eat cake.." it is one of the most incorrectly quoted quotes. If you think about it you can have your cake and eat it too but you can't eat your cake and have it too.
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In honor of Pastor Martin Niemöller:\n\nFirst they came for the 6th Amendment, but I hadn't been accused of a crime, so I didn't object to denial of counsel.\n\nThen they came for the 4th Amendment, but I wasn't talking to anyone overseas, so they wouldn't be monitoring me.\n\nThen they came for the rest of the 4th Amendment, but I only called my mother, so there was nothing suspicious in my phone records.\n\nThen they came for the 1st Amendment, but I never associated with criminals, so I didn't worry about being convicted purely based on what other people might do.\n\nThen they came for the 14th Amendment, but I never really understood the rules for Due Process (and wasn't allowed an attorney), so I didn't object.\n\nThen they came for the rest of the 1st Amendment, but I never told anyone about what the government was doing, so again I remained silent.\n\nThen they came for the 5th Amendment,  ......  and I no longer had the right to remain silent.
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This quotation did not come from a bible verse.  Here is the citation and source: http://www.bartleby.com/73/1084.html\n\nAUTHOR:Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926)\nQUOTATION:You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, and you can’t change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?\nATTRIBUTION:Representative JOSEPH G. CANNON, maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1923.—Congressional Record, March 4, 1923, vol. 64, p. 5714.\n\n  “Uncle Joe” Cannon, who was Speaker of the House 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years.
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you didn't give us enough of the quote to know what it's about. What is the entire quotation and what is the context?
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what book are you usuing for law?  I had a business law class a few semesters ago and its a pretty cool book.  Still have it actually "just incase" i will ever need it.\n\nI would tell you the title and author, but cant remember it off the top of my head.  If you want to know it, email me and i will give it to yas
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This goes to the suggestion, attributed by a Y! Q/R Answerer on the French list, to a commentator on a French Radio talk show "Grosses Têtes" citing Jules Ferry (19th Century Minister of Education, who is credited with the establishment of the right to free secular education in France): that instead of capital punishment, convicts should have their eyes gouged out.\n\nI've been unable to confirm the attribution, and am still trying.
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to understand the quote you might need to see the whole thing:\n"[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."\n\nI think it means that you have the freedom to be different about things that matter to you the most or something I really don't know haha but there's the whole quote maybe that will help
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As an interested observer (law student) I'd have to say: Not much, except by accident.\n\nMost public laws are about setting community standards and enforcing particular points of view. Occasionally, those laws are based on an enlightened objective sense of what is best for everyone, to ensure which is fairness and equality. That is one definition of justice.\n\nHowever, more often than not, laws are made because a majority of people believe one way and seek to force everyone else to adhere to their beliefs. This is the classic "Might Makes Right" approach of a partisan democracy. In other words, whoever is in the majority gets to make the rules, regardless of what the minority thinks.\n\nIf you happen to be in the majority on any given issue, then the ruling may look like justice to you. But if you are not, then being forced to do something that you don't approve just because you are in the minority doesn't sound like justice to me.\n\nCouple of examples:\n\nIs it justice to be able to hold people indefinitely, without access to an attorney, without charges, and without a trial -- just becomes one official designates that person as a threat? Apparently, it is legal (see Jose Padilla, Gito, etc.) But I don't think it is just.\n\nOr take the recent law sponsored by Senator McCain which outlaws torture. 89 (of 100) Senators voted in favor of that law. To me, prohibiting torture is a good step towards justice. But 10 Senators voted AGAINST that law, saying that torture is OK in some situations. How is that just?