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| A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. |
| A. Whitney Brown |
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| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
| Robert Frost |
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| A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself |
| Henry Peter Brougham |
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| A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers |
| Samuel Butler |
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| A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed |
| Rene Descartes |
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| All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. |
| Confucius |
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| But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature |
| David Hume |
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| Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for th |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. |
| Anton Chekhov |
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| Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution |
| Mark Twain |
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| For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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