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- "He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."
- Charles Lamb [...]
- Charles Lamb
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- "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 [...]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- "People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less."
- Edmund Burke [...]
- Edmund Burke
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- "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
- Robert Frost [...]
- Robert Frost
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- "Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither."
- Richard J. Barnet [...]
- Richard J. Barnet
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- "The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself."
- Charles Dickens [...]
- Charles Dickens
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- "The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure."
- Justice Frankfurter [...]
- Justice Frankfurter
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- "Justice is a machine that, when someone has given it the starting push, rolls on of itself."
- John Galsworthy [...]
- John Galsworthy
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- "The duty to keep a contract at common law means a prediction that you must pay damages if you don’t keep it, - and nothing else."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [...]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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- "I learned the law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
-Fred Allen [...]
- Fred Allen
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- "Ignorance of the law excuses no man – from practicing it."
- Addison Mitzner
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- Addison Mitzner
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- "Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
- William Shakespeare [...]
- William Shakespeare
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- "It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour."
-Thomas Jefferson [...]
- Thomas Jefferson
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- "After twenty-five years' observation, I can give it as the condensed history of most, if not all, good lawyers, that they lived well and died poor."
- Daniel Webster [...]
- Daniel Webster
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- "The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If its in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer."
Will Rogers [...]
- Will Rogers
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- “Lawyers are those who use the law as shoemakers use leather; rubbing it, pressing it, stretching it with their teeth, all to the end of making it fit their purposes.”
Louis XII [...]
- Louis XII
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- “There’s no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.”
Jean Giraudoux [...]
- Jean Giraudoux
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- “In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”
Earl Warren [...]
- Earl Warren
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- “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 [...]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- “People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less.”
Edmund Burke [...]
- Edmund Burke
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- “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost [...]
- Robert Frost
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- “Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.”
Richard J. Barnet [...]
- Richard J. Barnet