Quotes
Quotes about Man
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves themâthis is of the essence of leadership.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Leadership is not magnetic personality â that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' â that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
