Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

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

The legal profession is overrun with money-makers, who regard it only as a business by which money is made, with little or no thought of the quality of the means used. We greatly need many more lawyers who regard the profession as a ministry in the temple of Justice.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

… the comfortable fiction that all lawyers are skilled or even competent craftsmen in representing the fundamental rights of their clients.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

By God, we’ve got to get rid of the lawyers.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they work, and I know some of them who are so unhappy with it.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.