"No branch of the law is of more……" — Samuel Freeman Miller
"No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people."
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Samuel Freeman Miller
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20 Quotes by Samuel Freeman Miller
Samuel Freeman Miller has 20 quotes on this site.
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The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been…
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were…
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of…
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that…
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history…
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the…
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who…
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest…
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed…
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
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