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 law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he… — Jimmy Carter 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
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course there's a different law for the rich and poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E — Ralph Stewart Copy Share Image
The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock. — Edward Packard Jr Copy Share Image
If laws banning nudity are not provided, laws against decency ought not be considered let alone being established — Abbakhuwa Copy Share Image
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by… — Demonax The Cynic Copy Share Image
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. (Proverbs 28:9) — Bible Copy Share Image
A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her Sue -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally… — Dennis Wolfberg Copy Share Image
Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity — Buddha Sutta-Pitaka Copy Share Image
The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer. — Robert Schmitt Copy Share Image
Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break — Charles John Darling Copy Share Image
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. — Dick Houser Copy Share Image
Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving… — David Melinkoff Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that whereas justice has grandeur not devolving from the simian skull of man, law is a human… — Propertius Copy Share Image
