I started in life with the belief that our profession in its highest walks afforded
the most noble employment in which any man could engage and I am of the same
opinion still ...
I believed a man could be of greater service to his country and his
race in the foremost ranks of the Bar than anywhere else and I think so still.
To be a
priest and possibly a high priest in the Temple of Justice to serve at her altar and aid
in her administration, to maintain and defend those inalienable rights of life, liberty
and property upon which the safety of society depends, to succour the oppressed
and to defend the innocent to maintain constitutional rights against all violations
whether by the executive, by the legislature, by the relentless power of the press or
worse of all by the ruthless rapacity of an unbridled majority.
To rescue the
scapegoat and restore him to his proper place in the world - all this seemed to me to
furnish a field worthy of any man's ambition.
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