Famous quotes containing the words american and/or lawyer:
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)