We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Fairness is what justice really is.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

That which is not just is not law.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

More law, less justice.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

One with the law is a majority.

It is right to give every man his due.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Common sense often makes good law.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

It is legal because I wish it.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.