Quotes on Lawyer

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.