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You are remembered for the rul...

You are remembered for the rules you break.

~Douglas MacArthur~

While law is supposed to be a ...

While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

~Fred Rodell~

Whereas the law is passionless...

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

~Aristotle~

Where law ends, there tyranny ...

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

~William Pitt, the Elder~

When you have no basis for an ...

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

~Cicero~

When the president does it, th...

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

~Richard Nixon~

When the 30-year-old lawyer di...

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, ""How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30."" Replied St. Peter: ""When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95.""

~Anonymous~

Whatever is enforced by comman...

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

~Michel de Montaigne~

What a cage is to the wild bea...

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

~Herbert Spencer~

Well, I don't know as I want a...

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

~J. P. Morgan~

We should have learnt by now t...

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

~Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President~

We must reject the idea that e...

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

~Ronald Reagan~

We must not make a scarecrow o...

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it. Their perch and not their terror

~William Shakespeare~

We eagerly get hold of a law t...

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist~

We are all full of weakness an...

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

~Voltaire~

True, we build no bridges. We ...

True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

~John W. Davis~

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are ...

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . .""

~Bible~

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