Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 law, so much as a respect for right.

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

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