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Quotes about law and lawyers
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. (Butler Gerard)
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. (Butler Gerard)
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. (Butler Gerard)
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. (Butler Gerard)
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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters. (Butler Gerard)
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. (Butler Gerard)
Petty laws breed great crimes. (Butler Gerard)
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. (Butler Gerard)
Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. (Butler Gerard)
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made. (Butler Gerard)
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep. (Butler Gerard)
The more laws the less justice. (Butler Gerard)
Where the law is uncertain there is no law. (Butler Gerard)
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. (Butler Gerard)
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. (Butler Gerard)
Possession is nine tenths of the law. (Butler Gerard)
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. (Butler Gerard)
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. (Butler Gerard)
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. (Butler Gerard)
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. (Butler Gerard)
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. (Butler Gerard)
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. (Butler Gerard)
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life. (Butler Gerard)
The law often permits what honor prohibits. (Butler Gerard)
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. (Butler Gerard)
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