Every new time will give its law.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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 what I want to do.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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