My dear Mr. District Attorney, your law is shockingly bad. I have the perfect alibi. I am legally dead. Your business is with the ...living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisp...rudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow bor...n out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ransom Stoddard: I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna kill 'em. I wanna put 'em in jail. Tom Donophon: Well, I... know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems. Ransom Stoddard: No. Do, do you know what you're saying to me? D'you know? You're saying exactly what Liberty Valance said. What kind of community have I come to. You all seem to know about this fellow Liberty Valance. He's a no-good, gun-packing murdering thief. But the only advice you can give to me is to carry a gun. Well, I'm a lawyer. Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law. And the law is the only, the only.... [he collapses]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that "poor white folksy" men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred,... in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always was of opinion that the placing a youth to study with an attorney was rather a prejudice than a help.... The only help a ...youth wants is to be directed what books to read, and in what order to read them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of goo...d, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was in fact an old battle and hunting ground through which we had been floating, the ancient dwelling-place of a race of hunter...s and warriors.... Pawtucket and Wamesit, where the Indians, where the Indians resorted in the fishing season, are now Lowell, the city of spindles and Manchester of America, which sends its cotton cloth round the globe. Even we youthful voyagers had spent a part of our lives in the village of Chelmsford, when the present city, whose bells we heard, was its obscure north district only, and the giant weaver was not yet fairly born. So old are we; so young is it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »