lawyers quotes

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Thomas Sowell

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

Robert Frost

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Dan Quayle

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Will Rogers

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

Kurt Vonnegut

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin