Legal quotes & quips

When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty;

When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace;

When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.”

-- Lin Yutang

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“Litigation is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.”

-- Ambrose Bierce

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"A country man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.”

-- Oscar Wilde

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“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”

-- Lenny Bruce

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“I was never ruined but twice -- once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.”

-- Voltaire