Lawyer Quotes III

LAWYER QUOTES III

quotations about lawyers

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

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

MELVIN BELLI

attributed, Jar of Quotes

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Lawyers are a bad lot.... They cheat their living out of honest people.

ALBERT R. CARMAN

Incurable!

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No group has a greater responsibility today in helping maintain our free institutions of society than the lawyer. In fact, being a man of the law, he is uniquely equipped through training, outlook and experience to be a leader of his fellow citizens. American history confirms his tremendous contribution--helping draw up the basic documentation of our freedom, serving as a leader in local, state and national government, participating in the affairs of community life. At this hour, America especially needs the leadership of the lawyer. The moral fabric of our Nation is badly torn. Disrespect for law and order is widespread. The very principles of free government are being scorned and perverted. Flouting the law has almost become a hobby for some individuals.

J. EDGAR HOOVER

Texas Bar Journal, Feb. 22, 1964

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Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

STEPHEN KING

"1922", Full Dark, No Stars

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Lawyer even sounds like liar.

WALTER MOSLEY

Walking the Line

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Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment.

ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON

Is Killing People Right?

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Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

WALTER BESANT

Dorothy Forster

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Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

DAVID BERG

The Trial Lawyer

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There were lawyers who promoted quarrels to get fees. But they were the pariahs of the profession. The best lawyers were peacemakers, and though, of necessity, professional partisans when engaged in litigation, they were generally honorable partisans.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Reminiscences

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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Autobiography

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It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'.

JOHN RAY

A Complete Collection of English Proverbs

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Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated has the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination, and the victims of racial violence?... Lawyers are the simple yet essential means by which people seek to vindicate their rights and we must not foreclose that means.

JOHN CURTIN

remarks at American Bar Association annual meeting, Aug. 13, 1991

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Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

THANE ROSENBAUM

The Myth of Moral Justice

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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

WILL ROGERS

"Helping the Girls with Their Income Taxes", The Illiterate Digest

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A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe.

ROBERT CHRISTY

Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases

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