 Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good...  American Legal News - Page 151921Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...Cook. MA1U1l 2.1 are the peacemakers. .Matthew 5 : 9. Hitigation. (Notes from a law lecture, 1850.) Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...waste of time. As a peace-maker, the lawyer has a superiority of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...necessity for diligence, and acknowledging his own deficiences, he wrote : " Discourage litigation. ... As a peace-maker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity...litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 1138 pages
...performed, is the lawyer's glory. This is equally true of the Bench and of the Bar." — EDWARD G. RYAN. " Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds... | |
 | American Bar Association. Committee to Draft Canons of Professional Ethics - 1908 - 140 pages
...abuse and might be dealt with in some proper way by a Code of Professional Ethics." ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being- a good man. There will still be business enough. "Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1908 - 606 pages
...speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...State Agricultural Society, at Milwaukee. Sept. 30, 1859. T^VlSCOURAGE litigation. Persuade your J_x neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. . . . Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found... | |
 | Charles Henry Brent - Christian life - 1908 - 296 pages
...School Boy's Life of Lincoln, p. 66. Leader he was able to say to lawyers : " Persuade your neigh hours to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man."1 Or if we turn to the great Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, again we find integrity mounting... | |
 | Charles Henry Brent - Leadership - 1908 - 290 pages
...Boy's Life of Lincoln, p. 66. [ 167 ] Leader he was able to say to lawyers : " Persuade yourneighbours to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man."1 Or if we turn to the great Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, again we find integrity mounting... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 828 pages
...your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses and waste of time....peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of becoming a good man. There will always be enough business. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...the courts, set his face against such practice. "Discourage litigation," was his advice to lawyers. "Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior... | |
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