“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.” – Charles Lamb
“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
“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
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost
“Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.” – Richard J. Barnet
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” – Charles Dickens
“Whoever tells the best story wins.” – John Quincy Adams
“The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure.” – Justice Frankfurter
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.” – John Galsworthy
“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.