Antonin Scalia 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.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principles afterward.

Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a Harpy that devours everything.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

There's no certainty in the law.

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

One lawyer will make work for another.

Gentlemen, you cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.