A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please — John Gay Copy Share Image
The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
He was a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train. — Joyce Wadler Copy Share Image
Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept their promises — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in… — Woodrow T Wilson Copy Share Image
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but… — Henry Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are… — John Macy Copy Share Image
The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time -… — Judge Curtis Bok Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
