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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.

Michel de Montaigne

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Felix Frankfurter

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.

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter “How can you do this to me? – a heart attack at my age? I’m only 30.” Replied St. Peter: “When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95.”

Douglas MacArthur

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Law … begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.