A handsome handbook of legal wisdom past and present, for students,
prosecutors, partners, and litigators-Voltaire and Rousseau,
Jefferson and Lincoln, Holmes and Ginsburg, and much more. To be a
lawyer or a politician or a judge, one must dedicate their lives to
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legal wisdom from some of history's greatest thinkers. The road to
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Chapters include: Some Premises of the Law Society, the Individual,
and the Law The Machinery of the Law The Practice of Law Law,
Money, and Power Justice and Injustice Cases and Judgments Freedom
and Censorship Crime and Punishment At the Expense of Lawyers:
Quips, Jokes, and Scandalous Sayings Words from renowned lawyers,
judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up
this diverse assortment of over two hundred memorable, bite-sized
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-Voltaire "If in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer,
resolve to be honest without being a lawyer." -President Abraham
Lincoln "The first duty of society is justice." -Alexander Hamilton
"A system of justice is the richer for diversity of background and
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