LAWYER QUOTES IV

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Lawyer even sounds like liar.

WALTER MOSLEY
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Walking the Line


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Tags: Walter Mosley


As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

notes for a law lecture, July 1, 1850?


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Tags: Abraham Lincoln


We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish


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Tags: Lyman Abbott


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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Tags: Lyman Abbott


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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Tags: Melvin Belli


Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Clouds of Witness


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Tags: Dorothy L. Sayers


A countryman between 2 Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737


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Tags: Benjamin Franklin


Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice.

RICHARD L. ABEL

Lawyers in Society


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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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Jury--Twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

LENORA OLIVER

Herald, 1938


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As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values. I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values, or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong.

JOSEPH T. KARCHER

New Jersey Lawyer, Nov. 1986


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

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


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Tags: Eliza Cook


He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client.

J. HUNTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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Americans see lawyers as obstructionists, as defenders of murderers.... In reality, lawyers are the glue that holds society together. Without lawyers ... without law, you have anarchy.

BILL CUNNINGHAM

Cincinnati Magazine, Sep. 1992


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There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish


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Tags: Lyman Abbott


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

ALBERT R. CARMAN

Incurable!


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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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Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot.

ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD

"Abraham a Sancta Clara", Collected Papers


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[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge, as in other places the client trusts it to a counsellor; by this means they both cut off many delays and find out truth more certainly; for after the parties have laid open the merits of the cause, without those artifices which lawyers are apt to suggest, the judge examines the whole matter, and supports the simplicity of such well-meaning persons, whom otherwise crafty men would be sure to run down; and thus they avoid those evils which appear very remarkably among all those nations that labour under a vast load of laws.

SIR THOMAS MORE

Utopia


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Tags: Sir Thomas More