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Quotes about law and lawyers
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. (Butler Gerard)
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. (Butler Gerard)
The good of the people is the greatest law. (Butler Gerard)
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. (Butler Gerard)
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. (Butler Gerard)
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. (Butler Gerard)
The trouble with law is lawyers. (Butler Gerard)
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. (Butler Gerard)
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. (Butler Gerard)
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. (Butler Gerard)
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. (Butler Gerard)
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. (Butler Gerard)
Good men must not obey the laws too well. (Butler Gerard)
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other. (Butler Gerard)
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. (Butler Gerard)
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. (Butler Gerard)
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it. (Butler Gerard)
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. (Butler Gerard)
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man. (Butler Gerard)
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. (Butler Gerard)
Where the law ends tyranny begins. (Butler Gerard)
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. (Butler Gerard)
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Butler Gerard)
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. (Butler Gerard)
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Butler Gerard)
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