Quotes on Lawyer

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.