Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Lawyers

• Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders - serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few - as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Hero, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Law

• I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Morality, Lawyer

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Truth, Consistency

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

• I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.379, North Point Press

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