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Legal Historian Inspirational Quotes (28)

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I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.
Lawrence M. Friedman
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How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
Jacob Grimm
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The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.
Jacob Grimm
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Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that speak about the basic nature of their relationship.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.
Jacob Grimm
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In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.
Jacob Grimm
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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
Jacob Grimm
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He who is too well off is always longing for something new.
Jacob Grimm
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Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
Jacob Grimm
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The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.
Jacob Grimm
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[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.
Alexander Bickel
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Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.
Peter Birks
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Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
Jacob Grimm
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Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
Jacob Grimm
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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
Jacob Grimm
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The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.
Theodor Mommsen
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I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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