Legal quotes & quips

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


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

-- Ambrose Bierce

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

-- Benjamin Franklin


�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


�In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.�

-- Lenny Bruce


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

-- Voltaire