Jonathan Boucher (1738–1804) English minister
"Reminiscences of an American Loyalist" (first published serially in "Notes and Queries", 1874-)
“Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.”
quoted in Stan D. Ross' The Joke's On... Lawyers https://books.google.com/books?id=uNt90TeLOxgC&pg, p. 43 (Federation Press, 1996)
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Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician
[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Fragment, Notes for a Law Lecture (1 July 1850), cited in Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising his Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Vol. 2 (1894)
1850s
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
General Orders, Headquarters, New York (2 July 1776)
1770s
“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 8.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
“What use is an honest lawyer when what you need is a dishonest one?”
Eric Ambler (1909–1998) author
The Seige of the Villa Lipp (1977)
“It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.”
José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere
Source: Noli Me Tángere
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: The question to be tried by you is whether a man has the right to express his honest thought; and for that reason there can be no case of greater importance submitted to a jury. And it may be well enough for me, at the outset, to admit that there could be no case in which I could take a greater — a deeper interest. For my part, I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips — to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain.
A man has a right to work with his hands, to plow the earth, to sow the seed, and that man has a right to reap the harvest. If we have not that right, then all are slaves except those who take these rights from their fellow-men.
