Legal Quotes
I found a bunch of legal quotes last night.
"I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."-Adolph Hitler
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."-William Pitt
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."-Thomas Jefferson
"A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it."-H.W. Beecher
"If you want peace, work for justice."-Pope Paul VI
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."-H.L. Menchken
"Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man."-Aristotle
"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."-Hunt
"All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures."-Julius Ceasar - Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, J.T. Ramsey ed (1984)
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right..."-Judge Learned Hand
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."-Cicero
"Right... is the child of law."-Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
"When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."-G. K. Chesterton, speaking of society.
"Very few souls are saved after the first five minutes of the sermon."-Mark Twain
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."-Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)
"About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop."-Elihu Root
"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."-Samuel Johnson
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."-Justice Frankfurter, dissenting, United States v. Rabinowitz (1950)
"It usually takes three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."-Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."-Mark Twain
"The law must have the last word."-French President Jacques Chirac in response to rioters in France, November 6, 2005
"No man is above the law and no man below it."-Theodore Roosevelt
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."-Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."-Albert Einstein
"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."-Charles Lamb
"You get a reasonable doubt for a reasonable price."-Criminal attorney's saying
"May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are right."-Spanish Gypsy curse
"I, Lucius Titus, have written this my testament without any lawyer, following my own natural reason rather than excessive and miserable diligence."-The will of a citizen of Rome
"They do tricks even I can't figure out."-Harry Houdini
"I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."-Adolph Hitler
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."-William Pitt
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."-Thomas Jefferson
"A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it."-H.W. Beecher
"If you want peace, work for justice."-Pope Paul VI
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."-H.L. Menchken
"Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man."-Aristotle
"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."-Hunt
"All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures."-Julius Ceasar - Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, J.T. Ramsey ed (1984)
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right..."-Judge Learned Hand
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."-Cicero
"Right... is the child of law."-Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
"When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."-G. K. Chesterton, speaking of society.
"Very few souls are saved after the first five minutes of the sermon."-Mark Twain
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."-Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)
"About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop."-Elihu Root
"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."-Samuel Johnson
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."-Justice Frankfurter, dissenting, United States v. Rabinowitz (1950)
"It usually takes three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."-Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."-Mark Twain
"The law must have the last word."-French President Jacques Chirac in response to rioters in France, November 6, 2005
"No man is above the law and no man below it."-Theodore Roosevelt
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."-Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."-Albert Einstein
"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."-Charles Lamb
"You get a reasonable doubt for a reasonable price."-Criminal attorney's saying
"May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are right."-Spanish Gypsy curse
"I, Lucius Titus, have written this my testament without any lawyer, following my own natural reason rather than excessive and miserable diligence."-The will of a citizen of Rome
"They do tricks even I can't figure out."-Harry Houdini