Evelle J. Younger

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.

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

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

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

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

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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