No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its …

Abraham Lincoln
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). The Lincoln treasury
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