George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

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.