"Discourage
litigation. Persuade your neighbors to
compromise whenever you can. . . . As a
peace maker, the lawyer has a superior
opportunity of being a good [person].
There will still be business enough.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“As
we know, there are known knowns; there
are things that we know. We also know
there are known unknowns; that is to say
there are things we know we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns—the
ones we don’t know we don’t
know.”—Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfield
“True,
we build no bridges. We raise no towers.
We construct no engines. We paint no
pictures—unless as amateurs for our own
amusement. There is little that we do
that the eye of man can see. But we
smooth out difficulties; we relieve
stress; we correct mistakes; we take up
other men’s burdens and by our efforts
we make possible the peaceful lives of
men in a peaceful state.”—John W. Davis
In a
lawyer, courage is a muscle. You
develop courage by exercising it.
Sitting on the fence is not practice for
standing up. ---Professor Pamela S.
Karlan
“I
know that there is nothing better for
people than to be happy and to do good
while they live.”—Ecclesiastes 3:12
“You
never really understand a person until
you consider things from his point of
view….until you climb in his skin and
walk around in it.” – Harper Lee, To
Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch,
explaining life to his daughter, Scout)
What
we really experienced in law school was
a lobotomy of sorts, one that
anesthetizes the law student against his
emotions and attempts to reduce law to
some sort of science.” –Gerry Spence
“Justice,
justice
you shall pursue."—Deuteronomy 16:20
“The
best that we can do is to be kindly and
helpful toward our friends and fellow
passengers who are clinging to the same
speck of dirt while we are drifting side
by side to our common doom.”—Clarence
Darrow
“At
the heart of any code of professional
ethics is the injunction to put the
client’s interests first.”
“What
people want to hear is the truth—it is
the exciting thing—to speak the truth.”
—Winston
Churchill
“Whatever
you
do, do it well, as well as you can, and
be aware of what you are
doing.”—Janwillem Van De Wetering