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No amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
[Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm]
He is always breaking the law. He broke the law when he was born: his parents were not married.
[George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara]
The law, in all its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
[Anatole France]
There is strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the deaths of friends.
[Miguel de Cervantes]
When you have told anyone that you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing is to die at once.
[Samuel Butler]
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
[John Locke]
Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
[John Milton]
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
[John Seldon]
No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
[Magna Carta]
Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
[St Thomas Aquinas]
Good laws lead to the making of better ones, bad ones bring about worse.
[Jean Jacques Rousseau]
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.
[William Pitt]
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
[Niccolo Macchiavelli]
Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like.
Injustice is whatever prevents me doing it.[Samuel Butler]
Justice is truth in action.
[Benjamin Disraeli]
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
[Earl of Chesterfield]
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]
They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
[Thomas More - Utopia]
These are the mountebanks of state, . . .
The mastiffs of a government,
To worry and run down the innocent.[Daniel Defoe - A Hymn to the Pillory]
It is a strange trade, that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale, will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose for your guinea.
[Thomas Carlyle, Lord Jeffrey]
The Lawyers may revere that tree
Where thieves so oft have swung
Since, by the Law's most wise decree,
Her thieves are never hung.[Robert Fergusson]
One thing I supplicate, your majesty: that you will give orders, under a great penalty, that no bachelors of law should be allowed to come here [to the New World]; for not only are they bad themselves, but they also make and contrive a thousand iniquities.
[Vasco N. de Balboa, to His Majesty King Ferdinand V of Spain]
Whene'er a bitter foe attack thee
Sheathe thy sword, thy wrath restrain;
Or else will magistrates and lawyers
Divide thy wealth, thy purse retain.[Archevolti]
These men of Law and their confederates . . . the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.
[Bathsua Makin]