Law And Lawyers Quotes

"We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions."

"A judge is a law student who grades his own papers."

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

"In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch."

"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."

"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."

"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."

"Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them."

"The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections."

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."

"Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers"

"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."

"He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow."

"It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true."

"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns."

"When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks."

"Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."