Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Lawyers

• A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Lawyer, Valuable

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Years, Law, Done

  Life Thoughts (1858)

• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, War, Humor

• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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