Joseph Wapner Quotes

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.

One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

A competent knowledge of the laws of that society in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar

In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can give it any force: I mean equity and utility.

By God, we’ve got to get rid of the lawyers.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.

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

When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.