Top 6 Archibald Cox Quotes

#1. I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Archibald Cox

#2. True civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

Archibald Cox

#3. Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

#4. A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Archibald Cox

#5. Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses ... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

#6. Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Archibald Cox

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