Charles Gardner Geyh Quotes

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

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

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

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? … Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

Before I became Attorney General, I won’t say that I stayed up at night worrying about civil rights

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn't represent them.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

There is too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Even judges sometimes progress.

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

Law that is sufficiently complex is indistinguishable from lawlessness.

And let no one apply to the king in any suit, unless he at home may not be worthy of law, or cannot obtain law.

The laws you have already passed for the establishment of a judiciary system have opened the doors of justice to all descriptions of persons. You will consider in your wisdom whether improvements in that system may yet be made, and particularly whether a uniform process of execution on sentences issuing from the Federal courts be not desirable through all the States.

One lawyer will make work for another.

I learned that in seventy percent of all the civil cases in the judiciary of the United State at least one of the parties is not represented by an attorney. I didn’t know that.

Any legal system developed by the human community, being as it is a fruit of historical development, carries a seal of limitation and imperfection.

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

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?.

There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.