“The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.”
Reportedly said to a young John Bannister Gibson, who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when Gibson remarked that Marshall had reached the acme of judicial distinction; in David Goldsmith Loth, Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Growth of the Republic (1949), p. 275. See also Albert J. Beveridge, "Life of John Marshall" (1919)
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“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
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“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)
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1860s
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”