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Archibald Cox quotes

Ocupation: Former United States Solicitor General

Life: May 17, 1912 - May 29, 2004

Birthday: May 17

Death: May 29

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.

Topics: Government, Self, Law, Mutual Trust, Free Society

quote whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for congress and ultimately archibald cox Quotes

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Topics: College, Thinking, Issues

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Topics: Mean, Fighting, Winning

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Topics: Men, Law, Goal

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Topics: Country, Weakness, Judgment, Watergate, Passing Judgment

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Topics: Lying, Home, Plot

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

source: - Statement, 20 Oct. 1973. Cox had just been dismissed by President Richard M. Nixon because he refused to drop his lawsuit to obtain Watergaterelated White House tapes. See John Adams 4; Gerald Ford 3; James Harrington 1

Topics: Men, Law, People

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

Topics: States, Resorts, Civil Disobedience

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