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Quotes about law and lawyers
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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law. (Butler Gerard)
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. (Butler Gerard)
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. (Butler Gerard)
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. (Butler Gerard)
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. (Butler Gerard)
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. (Butler Gerard)
Lawyers I suppose were children once. (Butler Gerard)
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. (Butler Gerard)
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. (Butler Gerard)
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. (Butler Gerard)
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation. (Butler Gerard)
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. (Butler Gerard)
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. (Butler Gerard)
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. (Butler Gerard)
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. (Butler Gerard)
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. (Butler Gerard)
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. (Butler Gerard)
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. (Butler Gerard)
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers. (Butler Gerard)
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. (Butler Gerard)
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. (Butler Gerard)
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. (Butler Gerard)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. (Butler Gerard)
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. (Butler Gerard)
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Butler Gerard)
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