Non Politician

The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken

A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. - Robert Christy

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. - S.I. Hayakawa

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. - Clare Boothe Luce

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Washington, D.C.: Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. - Frank Dane

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Sophocles

Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

My husband and I had our best sex during our divorce. It was like cheating on our lawyers. - Priscilla Lopez

As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. - Junius

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. - Sri Chinmoy

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damage awards. - Jodi Picoult

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. - Richard P Feynman

Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. - Calvin Coolidge

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G Christopher Ritter

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers: you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda