Legal Quotes

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

It is right to give every man his due.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.