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Every new time will give its law.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities....

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Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of t...

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Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

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Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large thing...

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Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others?" said one of the figures in a dreadful voice."There's naebody ...

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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent ex...

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And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me...

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their...

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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...

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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...

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Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. I...

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nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded u...

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Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America Volume 1

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to b...

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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-...

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In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profes...

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Calvin TrillinThe Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain ...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shout...

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In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose ev...

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To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we ...

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election r...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save...

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It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 y...

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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws...

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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Well I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do w...

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge pote...

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...

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