Harry A. Blackmun Quotes

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

There is no fool to the old fool.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

There is no fool like an old fool.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.