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The three most useless jobs in the world in order are: lawyer, congressman, and doctor.

- Ron Swanson

There must be opportunities for judgment to mature. When, therefore, you increase your business to a very great extent, and the multitude of problems increase with its growth, you will find, in the first place, that the man at the head has a diminishing knowledge of the facts and, in the second place, a diminishing opportunity of exercising a careful judgment upon them.

- Louis D. Brandeis

Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

- James A. Garfield

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

- James A. Garfield

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

- James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

- James A. Garfield

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

- James A. Garfield

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.

- James A. Garfield

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

- James A. Garfield

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

- James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

- James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not be a fool, which, if I may judge by the exhibitions around me, is a matter of no small difficulty.

- James A. Garfield

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

- James A. Garfield

In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely or importance is the weight and worth of matter.

- William Wirt

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all above him.

- William Wirt

I know it when I see it.

- Potter Stewart

When everything is classified, then nothing is classified and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion.

- Potter Stewart

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a 'personal' right.

- Potter Stewart

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

- Potter Stewart

The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

- Potter Stewart