Edward Livingston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
-- Edward Livingston

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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
-- Edward Livingston

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To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
-- Edward Livingston

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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Edward Livingston famous quotes

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