Lawyer Quotes

Law, being a tyrant, compels many things to be done contrary to nature. Plato
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Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost." Louis Nizer
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author
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The law is above the law, you know. Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense. Samuel Butler
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, King Henry VI
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Imagine the appeals and dissents if lawyers had written the ten Commandments. Harry Bender
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. Will Rogers
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
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The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup. F. Ross Johnson, former CEO of RJR Nabisco
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The law is an ass. Charles Dickens
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Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers. Cullen Hightower
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
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Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious. Milton Berle
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The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. Judge Irving Kaufman
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

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