"Every lawyer carries within him the debris of a
poet."
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an
eye to every side and angle of contingency, and
qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws
himself on your part so heartily, that he can
get you out of a scrape."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A lawyer without history or literature is a
mechanic, a mere working mason; if he
possesses some knowledge of these, he may
venture to call himself an architect."
Sir Walter Scott
"The power of clear statement is the great
power at the bar."
Daniel Webster
"Liberty of speech inviteth and provoketh
liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much
to a man's knowledge."
"The security of the Nation is not at the
ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value
of our free institutions. A cantankerous press,
an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be
suffered by those in authority in order to
preserve the even greater values of freedom of
expression and the right of the people to
know."
U.S.D.J. Murray Gurfein
U. S. v. New York Times Co.,
328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1974)
"'Congress shall make no law' means no law."
Justice Hugo Black
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to
decide who has the better lawyer."
Robert Frost
"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."
President William Howard Taft
Presidential address, November 4, 1909
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to
enforce it strictly. "
Abraham Lincoln
"The right to be alone--the most
comprehensive of rights, and the right most
valued by civilized men."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Olmstead v. United States,
277 U.S. 438 (1928)
"The right to be let alone is indeed the
beginning of all freedom."
Justice William O. Douglas
Public Utilities Comm'n v. Pollak,
343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
"I shall not today attempt further to define the
kinds of material I understand to be embraced
within that shorthand description [of hard-core
pornography], and perhaps I could never
succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it
when I see it, and the motion picture involved
in this case is not that."
Justice Potter Stewart
Jacobellis v. Ohio,
378 U.S. 184 (1964)(emphasis added)
"The law hath not been dead, though it hath
slept."
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, II, ii.
"And do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, I, ii
"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Where be his quiddets now, his quillets, his
cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he
suffer this rude knave, now, to knock him
about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will
not tell him of his action of battery? Humph!
This fellow might be in's time a buyer of land,
with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines,
his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the
fine of his fines, and the recovery of his
recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his
purchases, and double ones, too, than the
length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The
very conveyance of his lands will hardly lie in
this box; and must the inheritor himself have
no more? "
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, V, i
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of
decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no
sense of decency?
Joseph N. Welch
June 9, 1954
To Senator Joseph McCarthy,
Army-McCarthy Hearings
"In making these accusations, I am fully aware
that my action comes under Articles 30 and 31
of the law of 29 July 1881 on the press, which
makes libel a punishable offence."
Emile Zola
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend
to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
(attributed)
poet."
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an
eye to every side and angle of contingency, and
qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws
himself on your part so heartily, that he can
get you out of a scrape."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A lawyer without history or literature is a
mechanic, a mere working mason; if he
possesses some knowledge of these, he may
venture to call himself an architect."
Sir Walter Scott
"The power of clear statement is the great
power at the bar."
Daniel Webster
"Liberty of speech inviteth and provoketh
liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much
to a man's knowledge."
- Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning - 1605
"The security of the Nation is not at the
ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value
of our free institutions. A cantankerous press,
an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be
suffered by those in authority in order to
preserve the even greater values of freedom of
expression and the right of the people to
know."
U.S.D.J. Murray Gurfein
U. S. v. New York Times Co.,
328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1974)
"'Congress shall make no law' means no law."
Justice Hugo Black
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to
decide who has the better lawyer."
Robert Frost
"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."
President William Howard Taft
Presidential address, November 4, 1909
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to
enforce it strictly. "
Abraham Lincoln
"The right to be alone--the most
comprehensive of rights, and the right most
valued by civilized men."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Olmstead v. United States,
277 U.S. 438 (1928)
"The right to be let alone is indeed the
beginning of all freedom."
Justice William O. Douglas
Public Utilities Comm'n v. Pollak,
343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
"I shall not today attempt further to define the
kinds of material I understand to be embraced
within that shorthand description [of hard-core
pornography], and perhaps I could never
succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it
when I see it, and the motion picture involved
in this case is not that."
Justice Potter Stewart
Jacobellis v. Ohio,
378 U.S. 184 (1964)(emphasis added)
"The law hath not been dead, though it hath
slept."
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, II, ii.
"And do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, I, ii
"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Where be his quiddets now, his quillets, his
cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he
suffer this rude knave, now, to knock him
about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will
not tell him of his action of battery? Humph!
This fellow might be in's time a buyer of land,
with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines,
his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the
fine of his fines, and the recovery of his
recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his
purchases, and double ones, too, than the
length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The
very conveyance of his lands will hardly lie in
this box; and must the inheritor himself have
no more? "
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, V, i
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of
decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no
sense of decency?
Joseph N. Welch
June 9, 1954
To Senator Joseph McCarthy,
Army-McCarthy Hearings
"In making these accusations, I am fully aware
that my action comes under Articles 30 and 31
of the law of 29 July 1881 on the press, which
makes libel a punishable offence."
Emile Zola
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend
to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
(attributed)
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