provided a link to www.JeffersonLeadership.com is included.
Category Archives: Lawyers
Thomas Jefferson on lawyers in Congress
Do lawyers add value?
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Autobiography, 1821, 1991
Patrick Lee’s Explanation
None needed.
Thomas Jefferson, though a lawyer, will do business with you and will not argue!
Instead, he will inspire, instruct and entertain your audience.
Call Patrick Lee, 573-657-2739
Thomas Jefferson on lawyers agreeing
Can lawyers ever agree?
On every question, the lawyers are about equally divided, and were we to act but in cases where no contrary opinion of a lawyer can be had, we should never act.
Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1808, 129
Patrick Lee’s Explanation
Jefferson was a lawyer and practiced law from 1767 to 1774. Through the years, he made several cryptic comments about lawyers and their profession.
Albert Gallatin was Jefferson’s Secretary of the Treasury for both of his presidential terms, from 1801 – 1809.
