Quotes by Lawyers - Page 2

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Abraham Lincoln

Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Brian Cuban

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard Nixon

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the pool boy.The other half are writing reviews of

Pete Morin

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....

Gerry Spence

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

Richard M. Nixon

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

Jeff Ashton

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

Kenneth Eade

The most important moments in a trial are often not seen by a jury. That is because it's one of the judge's main responsibilities to screen what they see and hear, lest they be prejudiced. It's the "you can't unring a bell" theory; once the jury hears something they shouldn't have heard, th trial is forever tainted. If the damage is great enough, a mistrial is the result. Judges basically prefer nuclear war to mistrials.

David Rosenfelt

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Kenneth Eade

People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third

Alexander Boldizar

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Cicero

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

Edward I. Koch

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

Michael W. McConnell

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.

Barbara Lieberman

Morality is contraband in war.

Mahatma Gandhi

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

Robert G. Ingersoll

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.

Landis Wade

Those cloudy nights when the stars fail to appear, I miss them terribly. But I know in my heart they are still there and, sometimes knowing has to be enough

Barbara Lieberman

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.

Rutherford B. Hayes

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Value of a Trade Mark is directly proportional to your Aggression and Risk Ratio.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

William Landay

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Louis Nizer

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Cicero

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

Alexander Hamilton

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

Llewelyn Powers

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

Daniel Webster

Hatred is settled anger.

Cicero

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

William Stringfellow

The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.

Kenneth Eade

He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.

Kenneth Eade

Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WWI: “The revolution of 1789 had no other goal than absolute access to the writing of legal statutes and the systematic destruction of customary institutions. It resulted in a state of permanent revolution because the mobility of the writing of laws did not provide for the stability of certain customary institutions, because the forces of change were stronger than the forces of stability. Social and political life in France was completely emptied of institutions and was only able to provisionally maintain itself by sudden jolts spurred by the heightened morality.

Carl Schmitt

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Franz Kafka

Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!''Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering.'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, the female, cold, moon principle.''Yin,' said Phryne. 'This is the womb of the earth.''Indeed.' He took her hand. 'Completely foreign to all male, hot, sun creatures.''Like you?''Like me. Yang can only admire and tremble.''Come along.' She led him into the centre of the huge space. 'We don't want to get lost in the earthmother's insides.

Kerry Greenwood

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99

Philip K. Howard

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

John Adams

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Cicero

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

Wallace Stevens

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Zia Haider Rahman

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

Montesquieu

By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system of central planning was, because ti can't think. The comedy of law's sterile logic--large POISON signs warning against common sand, spending twenty-two years on pesticide review and deciding next to nothing, allowing fifty-year-old white men to sue for discrimination--is all too reminiscent of the old jokes we used to hear about life in the Eastern bloc. Judgement is to law as water is to crops. It should not be surprising that law has become brittle, and society along with it.

Philip K. Howard

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.

Bernard Edelman

When you have no future, you live in the past.

John Grisham

I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. Maybe that's why I don't believe in the death penalty. It forecloses all possibilities.

Carsen Taite

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Daniel O'Connell

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