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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Petty laws breed great crimes. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The more laws the less justice. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Where the law is uncertain there is no law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Possession is nine tenths of the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. (Robespierre Maximilien)
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The law often permits what honor prohibits. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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