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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.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
It is legal because I wish it.
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.
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.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
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.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
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.
More law, less justice.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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.
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.
Common sense often makes good law.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
One with the law is a majority.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
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.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
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.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
It is right to give every man his due.
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.
Fairness is what justice really is.
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.
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
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.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
That which is not just is not law.
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Law is born from despair of human nature.