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"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
— potter-stewart"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
— thomas-hobbes"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
— julius-caesar"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
— marcus-tullius-cicero"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
— voltaire"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
— otto-von-bismarck"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
— steven-wright"Justice delayed is justice denied."
— william-e-gladstone"Punishment is justice for the unjust."
— saint-augustine"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
— honore-de-balzac"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
— abraham-lincoln"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
— mark-twain"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
— will-rogers"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
— henry-david-thoreau"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
— edmund-burke"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
— louis-d-brandeis"It is legal because I wish it."
— louis-xiv"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
— calvin-coolidge"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
— robert-louis-stevenson"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."
— charles-lamb"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
— william-gaddis"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."
— clarence-darrow"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
— george-washington"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."
— oliver-north"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."
— samuel-alito"It is right to give every man his due."
— plato"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
— jonathan-swift"Advertising is legalized lying."
— h-g-wells"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."
— william-godwin"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
— alan-dershowitz