If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Robert Dale Owen

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.
Steven Hatfill

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
Christopher Lasch

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Aeschylus

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Abigail Van Buren

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.
Richard Goldstone

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
Warren E. Burger

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
William Kidd

Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Margaret Cavendish

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Elihu Root

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
Rutherford B. Hayes

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
Pierre Charron

The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.
Robert Luskin