Legal Quotes

49. A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

^{William Dunbar}

50. All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

^{Joseph Conrad}

51. Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

^{Robert E. Lee}

52. I have been committed to carrying out my duties… in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

^{Samuel Alito}

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

^{Robert Frost}

54. Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.}

55. I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

^{Johnnie Cochran}

56. Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

^{Tammy Bruce}

57. The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

^{Clarence Darrow}

58. I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

^{Daniel Goleman}

59. It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it’s too bad that we don’t have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team’s lawyers.

^{Carol Burnett}

60. You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.

^{John Irving}

61. To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

^{Felix Frankfurter}

62. Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

^{Michel de Montaigne}

63. A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

^{John Lothrop Motley}

64. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

^{Edmund Burke}

65. Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

^{Charles W. Pickering}

66. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

^{Sol Wachtler}

67. Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.

^{Louis Nizer}

68. I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

^{Robert Green Ingersoll}

69. I have a different approach. I don’t file lawsuits because I really don’t care.

^{Nicole Kidman}

70. If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

^{Loni Anderson}

71. We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

^{Thomas Friedman}

72. All the libel lawyers will tell you there’s no libel any more, that everyone’s given up.

^{Ian Hislop}

73. The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

74. The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

^{Gavin Rossdale}

75. Fairness is what justice really is.

^{Potter Stewart}

76. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

^{Edmund Burke}

77. Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

^{Don Henley}

78. Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

^{Jack Kingston}

79. They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

^{Edward Bennett Williams}

80. As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don’t.

^{Jay Alan Sekulow}

81. I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out.

^{Max Walker}

82. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

^{Jean de la Bruyere}

83. I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

^{James E. Rogers}

84. As for lawyers, it’s more fun to play one than to be one.

^{Sam Waterston}

85. As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

^{Bill Williams}

86. It is right to give every man his due.

^Plato

87. Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

^{Saint Augustine}

88. Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

^{George Herbert}

89. The good lawyer is the great salesman.

^{Janet Reno}

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

^{Will Rogers}

91. Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

^{Addison Mizner}

92. I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.

^{Tom Glazer}

93. One with the law is a majority.

^{Calvin Coolidge}

94. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

^{Edmund Burke}

95. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

^{Charles Lamb}

96. The trouble with law is lawyers.

^{Clarence Darrow}

97. The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

^{Christopher Darden}

98. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

^{Louis XIV}