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"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
"The only way to deal with the law is to enforce it."
"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."
"The law is impartial. It makes no mistakes, it has no emotions."
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice."
"Legal actions speak louder than words."
"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one."
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"Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it."
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
"Law and justice are not always the same."
"I am for law and order, the way that it should be."
"Without law men are beasts."
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed."
"I don't like lawyers, nocomprende."
"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to himself."
"It is a higher-end lawyer's calling to encourage the application of justice."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"The good lawyer is the great salesman."
"I wouldn't mind being a bad lawyer if I had the most sway in a trial."
"A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
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"A lawyer does no good in private; they must be more than a comet, they must be a constellation."
"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence."
"A lawyer is the person that helps you get what's coming to you... no matter where it's hiding."
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government."
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
"Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer."
"The firm represented a brutal, deceitful and dishonest attorney."
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due."
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
"The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude."
"Legal language is an essential framework that is required for the smooth running and organization of every aspect of human society."
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
"Definition of law: Any rule that if broken will incur the disfavor of the superior courts."
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"A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for."
"The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis."
"Put into your look as much of the law as you can; then keep your balance."
"Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice."
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead and no man can tell how to refute him."
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
"The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The more precarious the enterprise, the more vital the role of the lawyer."
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape."
"In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right."
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence."
"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."
"The law is reason free from passion."
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
"Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge."
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
"Let the punishment fit the crime."
"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason."
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
"The more laws, the less justice."
"The good of the people is the greatest law."
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
"If you want peace, work for justice."
"The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich."
"Laws are silent in times of war."
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."
"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
"Where law ends, there tyranny begins."
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
"It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law."
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."
"Let all laws be clear, uniform, and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them."
"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an establishing harmony."
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The first duty of society is justice."
"Equal justice under law."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
"Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of their conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life."
"Let all laws be clear, uniform, and precise."
"The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government."
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
"The law is reason, free from passion."
"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
"The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle Boeing 747 crashes."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom but to keep those who hold power in power."
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."
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