“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
Aaron Burr, Jr. foi um militar e político dos Estados Unidos, filho de Aaron Burr, Sr., foi tenente-coronel do Exército dos Estados Unidos e membro fundador do Partido Democrata-Republicano no estado de Nova Iorque apoiou fortemente o governador George Clinton. Tornou-se no terceiro vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos durante a presidência de Thomas Jefferson, ainda que seja mais famoso pelo seu duelo com Alexander Hamilton , pelas suas presumíveis conspirações secessionistas e seu processo e absolvição final por traição. Wikipedia
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Reported in Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948).
Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.
Last words; Burr was an atheist. His last words were a response to the efforts of his friend, Reverend P.J. Van Pelt, to get Burr to state that there was a God. Reported in Holmes Moss Alexander, Aaron Burr: The Proud Pretender (1937), p. 356.