Quotes by Law In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. Abraham Lincoln prove law needs If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. Abraham Lincoln confidence perseverance law It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Abraham Lincoln gratitude government law A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Abraham Lincoln majority law people Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation. Abraham Lincoln reverence political law Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. Abraham Lincoln slavery constitution law I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Abraham Lincoln unions law war I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Abraham Lincoln views law war But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life. Abraham Lincoln law war needs Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln yield law men Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society. Abraham Lincoln legislation progress-of-society law The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. Abraham Lincoln principles law negative It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. Abraham Lincoln quality lines law A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Abraham Lincoln law war people When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind. Abraham Lincoln roots law hands Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. Abraham Lincoln unjust law may 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. Abraham Lincoln rights law men I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. Abraham Lincoln poor law may Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. Abraham Lincoln errors law people How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln lazy lawyer law «1234567891011»