Independent person Quote by Joseph Befumo

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

— Anonymous

“The Constitution guarantees the right of the People to have any person they choose assist them in court. This was the first Constitutional right…

— Joseph Befumo

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one…

— Stephen Breyer

“The fundamental tension of the profession is the struggle between bold advocacy of the client's interests and the need to establish and hold to…

— Scott Turow

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a…

— Anthony Kennedy

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the…

— Orrin Hatch

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The other members of the legal fraternity especially the court officers/lawyers should be encouraged to aid in interpretation of statutes by handing down suggestions…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

— John Locke

If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they…

— James Madison

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend…

— Allan Bloom

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

— Eric Dezenhall