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This is a sad day, because, to be perfectly honest, I think one of the truly great and extraordinary men of this generation has just admitted to criminal conduct. From the very beginning of this case, Mr. Kushner has wanted to accept responsibility for his criminal conduct.


Benjamin Brafman

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I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been...
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