Attorney General Bill

Famous quotes containing the words attorney, general and/or bill:

    “Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
    —Truman Capote (1924–1984)

    “Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth with such careless freedom but accuracy as the woodpecker his bill into a tree.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)