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Famous Lawyer Quotes
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. Abraham Lincoln
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. Will Rogers
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. Abraham Lincoln
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.” – Charles Dickens
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. Joseph H. Choate
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent. Abraham Lincoln
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Abraham Lincoln
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a brief. Franz Kafka
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. Stephen Wright
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. Abraham Lincoln
Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case. Edward Packard, Jr.
The minute you read something you can’t understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. Will Rogers
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. Patrick Murray
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. Steven Wright
Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education. Michelle Obama
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. Michelle Alexander
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. Patrick Murray
To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We’re all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box. Jerry Seinfeld
So, in a way, I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn’t work out at least I can be a lawyer. Frank Shorter
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power in the lawyers. Fred Rodell
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes.
Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer. Benjamin Franklin
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. Will Rogers
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. Sir Walter Scott
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you’ve got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide. Joe Jamail
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau
Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. Mario Puzo
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. Frank Dane
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson
But the person who scored well on an sat will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. William Julius Wilson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures. Aysha Taryam
As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at that’s what I did to death and then basically persuading people that you’re right, and they’re wrong. I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. Frank Abagnale
I contend that the cry of Black Power is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lawyers are men who will swear black is white if they are paid for it. Edward Counsel
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau
A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. Samuel Butler
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. Mahathir Mohamad
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. Charles Lamb
I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. Oliver North
Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon. Kamala Harris
As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone’s reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right thinking people to sue. David Hunt
Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer you gotta go to the same guy. Ronny Chieng
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he’s won his case. Alan Dershowitz
Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. Jane Bryant Quinn
I’m a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it. Megyn Kelly
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it’s not clear they’re that important Peter Thiel
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. Holmes
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. Jeremy Bentham
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin
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. Jean Giraudoux
Lawyer The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Elbert Hubbard
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. Rowan Atkinson
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Fred Rodell
I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. Oliver North
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook. Mahathir Mohamad
Law has no compassion. And Justice is administered without compassion. Christopher Darden
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation unfairly. Mario Cuomo
Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is. Raheel Farooq
Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. Jane Bryant Quinn
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. Charles Lamb
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. Henry P. Brougham
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. Peter Singer
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now. Anita Hill
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks. Preet Bharara
If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. Samuel Johnson
I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
How many lawyer jokes are there? One, the rest are true stories. Thomas F. Shubnell
The reality is that to succeed in law you have to put your nose to the grindstone for a good few years and watch, learn, develop and grow. David Reilly
Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. Lani Guinier
The law is a horrible business. Clarence Darrow
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. Mario Puzo
The lawyers’ truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau
Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational responses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman. Thane Rosenbaum
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers and most others in the profession will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. Alan Dershowitz
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. J. P. Morgan
In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. Woody Harrelson
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn’t be said for the guy; that’s why there are lawyers. Melvin Belli
Politicians were mostly people who’d had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. George R.R. Martin
I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity these values mean a lot to me. Mohamed ElBaradei
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers. Mario Puzo
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. Jefferson
Novelists write fiction. Lawyers speak fiction. Mike Hockney
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business! Rand Paul
When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don’t think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Ted Cruz
