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Quotes about law and lawyers
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. (Butler Gerard)
Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments. (Butler Gerard)
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. (Butler Gerard)
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. (Butler Gerard)
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Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout. (Butler Gerard)
Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout. I've got advice for those critics: Leave deception to the Hollywood filmmakers (Butler Gerard)
Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face. (Butler Gerard)
A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run (Butler Gerard)
The guy is a lawyer by trade who operates outside the law. It's an easy thing to identify with for me. (Butler Gerard)
I had a brother who was an attorney, so my first intention was to go to law school. I wound up in the police department, and I loved it. (Butler Gerard)
In Canada, they have relaxed those laws... Keep telling the politicians... soon, nobody will be going to prison for smoking it. (Butler Gerard)
“I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!” (Butler Gerard)
We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution’s need to maintain order and safety, … We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns. (Butler Gerard)
The allegations are despicable, … The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. (Butler Gerard)
You can run but you can’t hide, … This is the second defendant in six months who has fled the jurisdiction on the day of trial and it’s also the second one we have caught with the assistance of the FBI. (Butler Gerard)
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. (Butler Gerard)
Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception. (Butler Gerard)
To live outside the law, you must be honest (Butler Gerard)
“The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.” (Butler Gerard)
“John Rizzo is a classic D.O. lawyer. He understands the culture, the intelligence business. He admires the case officers. And they trust him to work out tough issues in the gray with them. He is like a corporate lawyer who knows how to make the deal happen.” (Butler Gerard)
I do not like the outcome of what happens with these things. But we have to follow the law. (Butler Gerard)
I don’t like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that’s what we need to do. (Butler Gerard)
We have to comply with the law. (Butler Gerard)
I did it because that’s what I thought the law required. (Butler Gerard)
I do not question that the attorney general should have this immunity. But for tactical reasons, I would not raise the issue here. (Butler Gerard)
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