"Legal quotes & quips" joke

When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty;

When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace;

When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.

-- Lin Yutang

Litigation is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

-- Ambrose Bierce "A country man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

-- Oscar Wilde

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

-- Lenny Bruce

I was never ruined but twice -- once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

-- Voltaire