Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

The best way out is always through.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.