No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
Every new time will give its law.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.