lawyers

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.