Government

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Quote by Will Rogers

Lawyers

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers.
Some of it might not be true.

quote by Gerald F. Lieberman
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Power of the lawyer

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

quote by Jeremy Bentham
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Judges and generosity

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

quote by P. G. Woodehouse

Laws

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

quote by Plato

Capital punishment

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime
as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

quote by Henry Ford

Problems

I've never had a problem with drugs.
I've had problems with the police.

quote by Keith Richards

In court

You don't know anything about a woman until you meet her in court.

quote by Norman Mailer

Lawyers

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Don Corleone, in The Godfather

Lawyers

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Evelle Younger

Lawyers

99.97 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Lawyers

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

Charles Dickens

Copyright law

Only one thing is impossible for God:
to find any sense in any copyright law around the world.

Mark Twain

Lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow

Crime in Germany

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

Alex Levin

Law and regulations

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

quote by Winston Churchill