Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the read more

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Our system is not one of justice, but of law.

Our system is not one of justice, but of law.

Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]

Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should read more

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.

I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.