Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Lawyers

• Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lawyer, Ancestor, Laborers

• Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Funny, Yield, Law Students

  "Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision".

• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Would Be, Tools

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.922, Library of America

• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, Talking, People

  Autobiography (1821)

• That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Together, Fifty

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.50

• Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

You May Also Like:

John Adams

George Washington

James Madison

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Hamilton

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Paine