Famous quotes containing the words american and/or lawyer:
“I believe that the miseries consequent on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are so great as imperiously to command the attention of all dedicated lives; and that while the abolition of American slavery was numerically first, the abolition of the liquor traffic is not morally second.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)