I think the same could be said for just about any lawyer of that time or currently. During my years of covering courts for various newspapers, I saw lawyers who could vehemently argue both sides of a question and then tell me personally that they believe in a third option.
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.