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The law, in all its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the
streets, and to steal bread the rich as well as the poor.
Anatole France
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis B Brandeis
Nothing is more destructive of respect for government and the law of the land than
passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
It may be true that law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching
me, I think thats pretty important.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Law should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to
serve.
Clarence Darrow
Laws too gentle are seldom observed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they make
Lord C J Darling
Laws are like spider webs; the hold the weak and delicate who are caught in their
meshes, but are torn apart by the rich and powerful.
Anacharsis
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice
must pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn
The trail lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument
appear the stronger.
Irvin R Kaufman
Ive never met a litigator who didnt think he was winning right up until the moment
the guillotine dropped.
William F Baxter
My daddy is a movie actor sometimes he plays the good guy, and sometimes he
plays the lawyer.
Malcolm Ford, son of Harrison Ford
Lawyer: the only men in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Russian proverb.
Doctors purge the body, preachers the conscience, lawyers the purse.
German proverb
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any mans permission
when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
A mans respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his pay
cheque.
Adam Clayton
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment Thou shalt not
ration justice.
Learned Hand
The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to
see that justice is done.
US Canons of Professional Ethics
If you want justice go to a whorehouse, if you want to get f@#&$, go to the courts.
German proverb.
A right is not what someone gives you; its what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark
Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you have the law.
William Gaddis
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld