Lawyer Quotes - Page 16

• Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Kind, Witness

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: In 2 Vol”, p.82

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• The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Class, Equality Under The Law, Liberty

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• The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Eye, Two

  Quoted in Albert J. Beveridge, Life of John Marshall (1919)

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• After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

  John Grisham

  Years, Fiction, Six

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self, Talking, Voice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

  Ann Richards

  People, Income, Pay

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• Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

  Dale Dauten

  People, Knocking, Linebackers

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• Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Public Speaking, Should, Avenues

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

  Adam Brody

  Girl, People, Judging

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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• We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

  Paul Levine

  Keys, Cells, Law

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• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Law, Rope

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

  John Perry Barlow

  Change, People, Firsts

  "The Economy of Ideas" by John Perry Barlow, www.wired.com. March 01, 1994.

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• I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

  Richard Ingrams

  Power, Law, Casinos

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Men, Woe Unto

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• Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

  Hart Pomerantz

  Education, School, Two

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• Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

  Richard Dooling

  People, Judging, Criminals

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• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

  Publilius Syrus

  Funny, Humorous, Law

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• The good of the people is the greatest law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, People

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more professional, to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers.

  Stephen Wizner

  Educational, School, Law

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• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

  Plato

  Music, Law, Innovation

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• A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

  Lucille Kallen

  Music, Running, Piano

  Lucille Kallen (1979). “Introducing C. B. Greenfield”, Crown Pub

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