Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand
Lucid in order, solid and at hand;
Spend not your words on trifles but condense;
Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;
Press to close with vigor, once begun,
And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.Joseph Story (1779-1845) American lawyer, jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1811-1845)
“Advice to a Young Lawyer”, The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Vol. 5 (1831)
Quotations by:
Story, Joseph
Frame constitutions of government with what wisdom and foresight we may, they must be imperfect, and leave something to discretion, and much to public virtue.
Joseph Story (1779-1845) American lawyer, jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1811-1845)
Address to the Suffolk Bar, New York (4 Sep 1821)
Here shall the Press the People’s right maintain,
Unaw’d by influence and unbrib’d by gain;
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledg’d to Religion, Liberty, and Law.Joseph Story (1779-1845) American lawyer, jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1811-1845)
Motto of the Salem Register newspaper