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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Mark Twain
This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.
Helen P. Blavatsky, Secret Doctr
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Archibald MacLeish
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
William Ewart Gladstone
Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
Proverb
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.
Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
Christopher Hitchens
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.
Walter Lippmann
