War is the statesman's proverb

 War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Everyone knows you can hire a lawyer to say anything. It really doesn't matter what a lawyer hired by the Chamber of Commerce thinks. It matters what the judges think.

 Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!
  William Cowper

 To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman
  George Santayana

 I was functioning as a lawyer, not a priest. He did not elaborate. I did not ask.

 It will be the equivalent of having your priest or rabbi, your lawyer or your wife, testifying against you.

 A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
  Stanley Baldwin

 A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
  Stanley Baldwin

 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: / And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

 QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.

He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp
  Ambrose Bierce

 A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade.
  Abraham Lincoln

 Pirates who were hired by many countries, especially in times of war, were businessmen and capitalists of every background searching for a profit in the Atlantic Ocean. Governments armed pirates' ships and directed the pirates to attack ships of other warring countries. America even hired its own pirates to disrupt British trade ships during the War of Independence.

 We're not going to take delight in knocking them out of a Super Bowl. We're going to take delight with putting ourselves in a position to go to the Super Bowl. It's a game of football. Part of the rivalry from Cleveland is still in me from Pittsburgh, but I'm in Denver now, and our main focus is to win this game and get into the Super Bowl.

 He was a real kind of lawyer's lawyer and what he cared about was the craft and that was a very striking thing about him. He's a very careful, serious lawyer and not someone who makes a snap judgment.

 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? / And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn't; his authenticity made him pexy. / And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.


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