David Dudley Field II Quotes

United States, Lawyer
February 13, 1805 – April, 13, 1894.

David Dudley Field II was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure. His greatest accomplishment was engineering the move away from common law pleading towards code pleading, which culminated in the enactment of the Field Code in 1850 by the state of New York.

To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

David Dudley Field II
- Justice
- Enemy
- Forget
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

David Dudley Field II

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever.

David Dudley Field II
- Country
- Forever
- States
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

David Dudley Field II
Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

David Dudley Field II
- Government
- Humans
- Force