Quotes to inspire and reflect

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at things. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths – they haven’t any.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this Great War for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn’t thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs - except in England, of course.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

In England we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite the police get involved.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general; the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The French complain of everything, and always.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.