70 result(s) for Lawyer Quotes.
"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."
"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 side of truth and bravely and buoyantly advocates what he believes to be the exact right."
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer."
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
"In England, justice is open to all – like the Ritz Hotel."
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"He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."
"A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."
"The legal profession is notoriously conservative, but not all efforts to change the law are necessarily liberal."
"The thing of crime is, you must let it be the judge of itself. It must argue all for itself."
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
"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."
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
"The first duty of society is justice."
"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
"Trial by jury is the palladium of free government."
"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 that of a beloved friend;."
"I think the reason why lawyers generally shy away from questioning government is that they are afraid of becoming targets themselves."
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer."
"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence."
"Lawyers know life practically. A book can never teach it you."
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can."
"A man who knows the law, and reconnaisance, what rights have been handed down to us, knows enough to prevent any man from becoming a tyrant."
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him."
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own papers."
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
"The good lawyer is 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 that of a beloved friend."
"The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right."
"In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win."
"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."
"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer."
"A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes advantage of the loophole."
"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."
"Don't misinform your doctor nor your lawyer."
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
"A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."
"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 that of justice, and will not weaken it by pinching and scrutiny."
"It is not injustice to receive what is our own."
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"I do not think we can hope for any better condition until common lawyers shall either cease to hold seats in the Congress, or cease to be common lawyers."
"Go to law for a spider's web."
"A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief."
"A legalistic, moralistic, religious mindset will always focus on external behavior rather than internal heart transformation."
"Lawyers believe that the more papers you file, the better your chances."
"I'm a lawyer, and I try to bring that level of objectivity and thoroughness to whatever I do."
"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."
"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor."
"A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself."
"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 side of virtue, and throws himself against your adversary as against the champion of crime."
"Lawyers are like beavers; they get in the mainstream and damn it up."
"I don't like lawyers, preachers, politicians, or undertakers."
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a doctor is pleased when a patient recovers quickly."
"Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. A lawyer can tell you what the consequences are if you do something. "
"There are two kinds of lawyers: those who know the law and those who know the judge."
"Never lie to your doctor or your lawyer."
"Bad lawyers are more dangerous than criminals."
"The job of a lawyer is to find justice, but it is not the job of a lawyer to create justice."
"A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch."
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