the law
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 more thoughts from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 thoughts from Felix Frankfurter
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 other views from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 other wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 other sayings from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 more wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 other quotes from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 other quotes from Ellen Key
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 more quotes from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 quotes from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 other sayings from Joseph Conrad
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 more quotes from William Dunbar
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 quotes from Arthur Baer
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
11 quotes from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 views from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 other quotes from Sonny Bono
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 sayings from Robert Casey
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 sayings from Nelson Algren
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 wisdom & wit from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 sayings from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 sayings from Clarence Darrow
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 views from Joseph Addison
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 other thoughts from John Clayton
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 thoughts from Bobby Darin
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 quotes from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 other quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 other wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 thoughts from H. G. Wells
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 thoughts from Orson Pratt
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 other sayings from Orson Pratt