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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. — Abraham Lincoln
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again. — Mark Twain
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge… — James Boswell
I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on… — Chelsea Clinton
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. — John Sergeant Wise
To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god. — Unknown Author
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. — Unknown Author
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. — Henry Ward Beecher
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn't… — Russ Rose
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you. — George W. Bush
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… — Voltairine de Cleyre
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income… — Walter Wriston
People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. — Roger McNamee
Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one. — Carlo Gambino
'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do… — Joe Lieberman
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a… — Unknown Author
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he… — A. Whitney Brown
America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health… — Richard Lamm
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay… — Gore Vidal

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