"Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters."

More, Thomas on law and lawyers   

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida on law and lawyers   

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Dryden, John on contentment
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"We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on law and lawyers   

"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."

King Jr. Martin Luther on law and lawyers
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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers
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"A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate."

Gay, John on law and lawyers   

"In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law."

Gordimer, Nadine on law and lawyers   

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."

Halifax, Edward F. on law and lawyers
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"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."

Irving, Washington on law and lawyers   

"Rulers were made to be broken."

Isenberg, Michael on law and lawyers   

"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."

Jefferson, Thomas on law and lawyers
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"Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it."

Johnson on law and lawyers   

"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."

Mcilvanney, William on law and lawyers   

"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."

Keats, John on law and lawyers   

"Love is the fulfilling of the Law."

Bible on love
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