Archibald Cox Quotes
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
→ -
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.
→ -
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
→ -
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional 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.
→ -
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.
→
Archibald Cox
- Born: May 17, 1912
- Died: May 29, 2004
- Occupation: Former United States Solicitor General
Related Authors
-
Antonin Scalia Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
Christine Todd Whitman Former Governor of New Jersey -
William Ruckelshaus Attorney -
John Ehrlichman Counsel -
E. Howard Hunt Writer -
Naveen Jain Entrepreneur -
William Rehnquist Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
Robert Bork Former United States Solicitor General -
Sam Ervin American Politician -
Spiro T. Agnew Former Vice President of the United States -
John N. Mitchell Attorney -
Richard M. Nixon 37th U.S. President -
John F. Kennedy 35th U.S. President -
Leon Jaworski Special prosecutor -
Derek Bok Lawyer -
H. R. Haldeman Former White House Chief of Staff -
G. Gordon Liddy Armed force officer -
John Dean Former White House Counsel -
Clarence Thomas Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
Anthony Kennedy Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States