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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Addison Mizner

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• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  Aaron Allston

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• Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  Rahm Emanuel

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• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Lionel Trilling

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• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don’t have to declare war. You’re just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  Val Kilmer

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• A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

  John Lothrop Motley

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• A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

  Sol Wachtler

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

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• A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

  William Dunbar

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• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  George Herbert

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• As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don’t.

  Jay Sekulow

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• As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

  Bill Williams

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• Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there’s a pretty good likelihood their case – no matter what its merit – will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

  Dennis Hastert

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• Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

  George Herbert

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• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  Jack Kingston

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Charles Lamb

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• I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

  Johnnie Cochran

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• I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

  James E. Rogers

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