“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. , militar y político estadounidense, miembro fundacional del Partido Demócrata-Republicano en el Estado de Nueva York. Apoyó al gobernador George Clinton. Se convirtió en el tercer vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos, durante la presidencia de Thomas Jefferson , aunque es más famoso por su duelo con Alexander Hamilton , sus presuntas conspiraciones secesionistas y su proceso y absolución final por traición. 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.