Joseph Hodges Choate Quotes

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

One lawyer will make work for another.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

I don't want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.