#lawyer

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#appeal #being #between #connection #doctor

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#called #chief #council #country #great

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#authority #band #country #had #lawyer

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#go #law #law school #lawyers #more

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#constitution #i #kids #lawyer #raised

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#asking #everything #garbage #gets #into

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#comfortable #divorce #entirely #finish #friendly

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! ↗

— Jonathan King

#acts #alive #being #careers #certain