Inside Every Lawyer Is The Wreck Of

Common Experience Shows How Much Rarer Is Moral Courage Than Physical Bravery. A Thousand Men Will March To The Mouth Of The Cannon Where One Man Will Dare Espouse An Unpopular Cause . . . True Courage And Manhood Come From The Consciousness Of The Right Attitude Toward The World, The Faith In One's Purpose, And The Sufficiency Of One's Own Approval As A Justification For One's Own Acts.

To Be An Effective Criminal Defense Counsel, An Attorney Must Be Prepared To Be Demanding, Outrageous, Irreverent, Blasphemous, A Rogue, A Renegade, And A Hated, Isolated, And Lonely Person - Few Love A Spokesman For The Despised And The Damned.

Religion Is Based On The Insistence That Over And Above All Is A Purpose And A Guiding Hand That Is Beneficent And Kind, And Would Not Leave A Hair Unnumbered Or Let A Sparrow Fall Unnoticed To The Ground. Those Who Cherish Such Hallucinations Forget That The All-loving Power Is Inflicting Tuberculosis, Cancer, Famine, And Pestilence On The Trusting, Simple Sons Of Men.

Some False Representations Contravene The Law; Some Do Not. The Law Does Not Pretend To Punish Everything That Is Dishonest. That Would Seriously Interfere With Business, And, Besides, Could Not Be Done. The Line Between Honesty And Dishonesty Is A Narrow, Shifting One And Usually Lets Those Get By That Are The Most Subtle And Already Have More Than They Can Use.

If A Man Is Happy In America, It Is Considered He Is Doing Something Wrong.