Quotes About The Right To Counsel

#1. We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.

Kenneth Eade

#2. The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Elihu Root

#3. The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

George Sutherland

#4. Like sheet music when recordings came along - recordings are now becoming marginalised. CD sales are not declining because of piracy, but because CDs are the last hurrah of the electric age.

Anonymous

#5. Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Mark Hamill

#6. We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#7. I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

Tim Kaine

#8. Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.

Kevin Mitnick

#9. The Patriot Act [ ... ] makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

Michael Badnarik

#10. The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Jasper Fforde

#11. In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Michael Crichton

#12. It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of theirs!

Mollie Gross

#13. Lousse tried to make him say, Pretty Polly! I think it was too late. He listened, his head on one side, pondered, then said, Fuck the son of a bitch. It was clear he was doing his best.

Samuel Beckett

#14. Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

Debalina Haldar

#15. I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#16. Such power I gave the people as might do,
Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
Those that were great in wealth and high in place
My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
Before them both I held my shield of might,
And let not either touch the other's right.

Plutarch

#17. I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

Lynette Fromme

#18. In certain situations you ask to see a sign to guide you in the right direction. Sometimes these calls to a higher power are answered and sometimes we are left to seek counsel from within. But if you look for them, the signs will usually present themselves to those with open eyes.

Adam Braun

#19. You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

Harry Belafonte

#20. The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Gunnar Myrdal

#21. Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

David Cottrell

#23. I'm going to have to bring up the nigger bill again. [Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ's Special Counsel Harry McPherson.]

Lyndon B. Johnson

#24. Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

G.A. Henty

#25. In offering one's opinion, one must first ascertain whether or not the recipient is in the right frame of mind to receive counsel.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#26. And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me ...
"What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well.
"My future wife. The mother of my children.

Kristan Higgins

#27. I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

Constance Baker Motley

#28. It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

Laura Dekker

#29. Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

Tony Blair

#30. Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Russell Simmons

#31. Drain and dry pickles.

Mike CincyShopper

#32. When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Gloria Steinem

#33. Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

Richard Dooling