Law and lawyers proverbs

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◆ The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

- Larry Wal98

◆ Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

- Edmund Burke98

◆ Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

- John Milton98

◆ The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

- Ayn Rand98

◆ The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...

- Niccolo Machiavelli98

◆ This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr98

◆ Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

- Abraham Lincoln98

◆ Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

- Mark Twain98

◆ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

- Immanuel Kant98

◆ The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as part

- Hugo Black98

◆ I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please

- John Gay98

◆ The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.

- Edward Packard Jr98

◆ Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution

- Mark Twain98

◆ A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall.

- Isabel Paterson98

◆ Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about

- Aldo Leopold98