Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears they cut what comes between them, but not each other.
More Quotes from Daniel Webster:
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.Daniel Webster
If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.
Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster
Thank God I I also am an American.
Daniel Webster
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Law & Regulation QuotesBased on Keywords: shears
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Lillian Gordy Carter
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Lynd