25 result(s) for Lawyer Quotes About Knowing When.
"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"I know there are some lawyers who do not like to see the wheels of justice turn unless they are well oiled."
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time."
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part as on the square of the world, not thinking, while he defends you, that that defence may be the ruin of his client's house."
"He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
"First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."
"If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, 'the law is a ass -- a idiot."
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
"Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible to always meet extraordinary needs by changing its emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form."
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us."
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"Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society... It is a goal to which each of us must contribute."
"I hate lawyers as I hate sin."
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
"A judge is a law student who marks his own papers."
