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Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke

Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Where there's a will there's a lawsuit. - Addison Mizner

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution. - Rennard Strickland

The police are recruited from the criminal classes. - Gore Vidal

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. - Hebrew Proverb

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. - Unknown

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. - Gerald Jampolsky

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

Marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver

Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you. - Unknown

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde

Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel. - Josh Billings

Tennis is like a lawsuit: activity from across the court is often surprising. - Unknown

I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law. - Bugs Bunny

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with. - Deborah Ross

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. - Voltaire

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. - Mayer A. Rothschild

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

Self-preservation is the first law of nature, but self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace. - Unknown

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. - Henry P Brougham

Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves. - Charles C Colton

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. - Guindon

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements form becoming big ones. - Harvey Mackay

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W Ouseley

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

The denial of an objective moral law based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God results ultimately in the denial of evil itself. - Ravi Zacharias

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. - Melvin Belli

What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles. - George Rhyne