Archive for May 23rd, 2009
Quotable law quotes
- If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. – Charles Dickens
- The trouble with law is lawyers. - Clarence S. Darrow
- When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli
- A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost
- The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are alsolucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. - Raymond Chandler
- The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. - Marcus T. Cicero
- In law, nothing is certain but the expense. – Samuel Butler
- The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. - Ralph W. Emerson
