Legal Quotes

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."

"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

"I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession."

"The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it."

"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."

"PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament."

"I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies."

"It's a very technical and legal situation."

"I recognize this is a serious matter. It is still a legal proceeding, that's all I can say. ... I can't comment on any of this. It's the position we've taken for two years now."

"If you're not legal, you don't need to wait on this,"

"It is not that they are not needed and it is not that they are not valuable. Our legal mission, and what we are required to do, is to educate kids from kindergarten through 12th grade, and when we can go outside that within our financial strengths I think it is OK to do that."

"That was all legal at the time."

"I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters. It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies."

"Everything we did was legal. I did not do anything wrong."