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Quotes about law and lawyers
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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish. (Butler Gerard)
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. (Butler Gerard)
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv] (Butler Gerard)
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. (Butler Gerard)
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. (Butler Gerard)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Butler Gerard)
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked. (Butler Gerard)
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws (Butler Gerard)
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. (Butler Gerard)
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law. (Butler Gerard)
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. (Butler Gerard)
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. (Butler Gerard)
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. (Butler Gerard)
The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Butler Gerard)
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. (Butler Gerard)
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. (Butler Gerard)
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. (Butler Gerard)
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. (Butler Gerard)
I say, break the law. (Butler Gerard)
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. (Butler Gerard)
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. (Butler Gerard)
The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution. (Butler Gerard)
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them (Butler Gerard)
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. (Butler Gerard)
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. (Butler Gerard)
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