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Aaron Burr
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“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
“There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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…
“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948).
“On that subject I am coy.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 P…