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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Every law is an infraction of liberty. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. (Robespierre Maximilien)
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. (Robespierre Maximilien)
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. (Robespierre Maximilien)
As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. (Robespierre Maximilien)
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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