• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 23 votes · 100 reads

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• The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.6 · 24 votes · 102 reads

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• The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 137 reads

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• The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 37 votes · 130 reads

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.9 · 5 votes · 57 reads

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• The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 197 reads

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• The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 121 reads

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• The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 159 reads

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• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 56 reads

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• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 45 reads

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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 29 votes · 124 reads

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• The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 45 reads

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• The more laws the less justice.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 5 votes · 74 reads

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 145 reads

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• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 82 reads

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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 58 reads

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• This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 2 reads

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• To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 6 reads

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• We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.0 · 60 votes · 143 reads

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 129 reads

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• Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

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  J. P. Morgan

  BusinessmanAmerican1837 · 19th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 117 reads

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• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 107 reads

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• When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 151 reads

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• When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 92 reads

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• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 117 reads

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• Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 77 reads

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• Where the law ends tyranny begins.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 43 reads

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• Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 45 votes · 55 reads

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• You can't regulate every lab in the world.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 84 reads

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