Lawyers Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

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

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

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

The first thing a good lawyer does is immediately presume the guilt of his client.

The attempt to treat politics as a branch of the profession of law [has] the disadvantage of refining issues to a point which no large society could comprehend.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Putting the principle of liberty into practice requires institutions: functional legislatures, government bureaucracies, and full-fledged legal system with police, lawyers, prosecutors, and impartial judges…. And the relevant institutions must be firmly anchored in values: people must believe in the importance of protecting … zones of social and civic life from state interference.

If you want to amplify the data that you have, you need media, you need lawyers, you need the judiciary. Especially when governments try to shut down a particular website or when litigating on an issue.

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

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

Be a President. Don't try to be a lawyer.