A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.
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