Lawyers pick-up lines

1. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

2. "Where law ends, tyranny begins." - William Pitt

3. "Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason." - J. Powell

4. "Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns." - Louis XIV

5. "A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it." - H.W. Beecher

6. "If you want peace, work for justice" - Pope Paul VI

7. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." - H.L. Menchken

8. "Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people." - Blackstone

9. "Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

10. "All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures." - Julius Ceasar - Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, J.T. Ramsey ed (1984)

11. "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right..." - Judge Learned Hand

12. "I think the first duty of society is justice." - Alexander Hamilton

13. "Right... is the child of law." - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

14. "Come now, and let us reason together . . ." - The Song of Solomon Isaiah

15. "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." - Author Unknown

16. "The law is reason free from passion." -Aristotle

17. "our reason is our law." -Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. IX, l. 652

18. "Man is a reasoning animal." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Epistles, 41,8

19. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

20. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain

21. "The law must have the last word." - French President Jacques Chirac in response to rioters in France November 6, 2005

22. "No man is above the law and no man below it." - Theodore Roosevelt

23. "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire, Zadig, 1747

24. "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth - - persistent, persuasive, unrealistic." - John F. Kennedy

25. "Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order." - Albert Einstein

26. "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire, Zadig, 1747

27. "Unkindness has no remedy at law." - Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734) comp., Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs,5402, 1732.

28. "They that make laws must not break them." - John Ray (1628 - 1705). Comp., A Collection of English Proverbs, p. 166, 1678.

29. "Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice" - Proverbs 13:10

30. "They do tricks even I can't figure out." -Harry Houdini

31. "If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789, in Papers of Thomas Jefferson 14:660 (Julian P. Boyd ed. 1958)

32. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

33. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein

34. In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning people are all the same. - Albert Einstein

35. Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare 36. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." Clarence Thomas 37. "It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law." Sonia Sotomayor 38. "Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants." Stephen Breyer 39. "There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all." Antonin Scalia 40. "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." Harry Blackmun 41. "It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written." John Paul Stevens 42. "the interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship." John Paul Stevens 43. "Our love cannot be measured, it just is." John Paul Stevens 44. "Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong." Harry Blackmun 45. "Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford." Arthur J Goldberg 46. "The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion." John Paul Stevens 47. "The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy." Harry Blackmun 48. "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." Sonia Sotomayor 49. "What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?" Antonin Scalia 50. "As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom." Anthony Kennedy 51. "Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public." Stephen Breyer 52. "I have been committed to ca

rrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct." Samuel Alito 53. "Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times." Warren E Burger 54. "I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights." Sonia Sotomayor Source: Speech on being nominated to the Supreme Court - May 26th 2009 55. "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." Thurgood Marshall 56. "Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen." Warren E Burger 57. "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation." Ruth Bader Ginsburg 58. "The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people," Ruth Bader Ginsburg 59. "I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." Harry Blackmun 60. "You can make an exception without the sky falling," Antonin Scalia 61. "over my dead body." Antonin Scalia 62. "Dissents speak to a future age." Ruth Bader Ginsburg 63. "Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want." Stephen Breyer 64. "A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable." Antonin Scalia 65. "We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts." Sonia Sotomayor 66. "In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse," Anthony Kennedy 67. "There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles." Anthony Kennedy 68. "Money is property; it is not speech." John Paul Stevens 69. "Sometimes history takes things into its own hands." Thurgood Marshall

70. "Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason." - J. Powell

71. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

72. "Very few souls are saved after the first five minutes of the sermon." - Mark Twain

73. "Judicial reform is no sport for the short-winded." - Arthur T. Vanderbuilt

74. "Simple is good." - Jim Henson

75. "If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end." -Mark Twain

76. "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A.J. Liebling, "The Wayward Press: Do you belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 14 May 1960, at 105, 109

77. "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." - William O. Douglas, Public Utilities Comm'n v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)

78. "Equal Justice Under Law." - Inscription on West Portico of Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.

79. "Justice the Guardian of Liberty." - Inscription on East Portico of Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.

80. "We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal

81. A tree while it grows, wood when it cannot grow. - Arbor dum crescit; lignum cum crescere nescit

82. Where there is a weak foundation, the work fails. - Debile fundamentum fallit opus

83. God alone, not man, can make an heir. - Deus solus haeredem facere potest, non homo

84. The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. - Dormiunt leges aliquando, nunquam moriuntur

85. The custody of the law is stronger than that of man. - Fortior est custodia legis quam hominis

86. It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. - Fraus est celare fraudem

87. We have the best witness, a confessing defendant. - Habemus optimum testem confitentem reum

88. Man is a term of nature, person of the civil law. - Homo vocabulum est naturae; persona juris civilis

89. It is the same to say nothing as not to say enough. - Idem nihil dicere et insufficienter dicere est

90. A wrong does not excuse a wrong. - Injuria non excusat injuriam

91. Anger is brief insanity. - Ira furor brevis est

92. To swear is to call God to witness and is an act of divine worship. - Jurare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cultus

93. The greater contains the less. - Major continet in se minus

94. The people are the greatest master of error. - Maximus magister erroris populus est

95. To lie is to act against the mind. - Mentiri est contra mentem ire

96. Negligence always has misfortune for a companion. - Negligentia semper habet infortuniam comitem

97. He is not deceived who knows that he is deceived. - Non decipitur qui scit se decipi

98. Wrongs against nature are the most serious. - Peccata contra naturam sunt gravissima

99. He who stices to the letter, sticks to the bark. - Qui haeret in litera, haeret in cortice

100.He who does not disapprove, approves. - Qui non improbat, approbat

101.Whatever is planted in or affixed to the soil, belongs to the soil. - Quidcquid plantatur solo, solo cedit

102.What has no beginning has no end. - Quod non habet principium non habet finem

103.The safety of the people is the supreme law. - Salus populi est suprema lex

104.A suppression of truth is equivalent to an expression of falsehood. - Suppressio veri expressio falsi

105.Where there is a right there is a remedy. - Ubi jus ibi remedium est

106.Deeds are more powerful than words. - Facta sunt potentiora verbis.

107. An error not resisted is approved. - Error, qui non resistitur approbatur

108. Delivery makes a deed speak. - Traditio loqui chartam facit

109. That is proved in vain which when proved is not relevant. - Frustra probatur quod probatum non relevant