Law and lawyers quotations

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◆ The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them

- Demonax The Cynic98

◆ When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law

- Judge Curtis Bok98

◆ As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

- Isabel Paterson98

◆ Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

- Robert Francis Kennedy98

◆ And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department

- Andrew Carnegie98

◆ The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow

- Niccolo Machiavelli98

◆ Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for th

- Theodore Roosevelt98

◆ We need a law that will permit a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise

- Mark Twain98

◆ Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

- Anton Chekhov98

◆ Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law

- Sophocles98

◆ The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

- Henry David Thoreau98

◆ Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws

- John Adams98

◆ I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master.

- Brigham Young98

◆ The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

- Thomas Jefferson98