"Lawyers are men whom we hire to..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.”

“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

“Conformists die, but heretics live forever.”

“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

“I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.”

“Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

“Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.”

“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”