Thursday, June 18, 2026

Law Jokes, Quotes & Cartoons

 



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Gonzaga University School of Law – Spokane, Washington – Class of 2002 – Cum Laude The Latin phrase Deo patriae, scientiis, artibus” translates to For God and country through sciences and arts”.  The initials A.M.D.G. on the seal of Gonzaga Law School stand for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, which is Latin for “For the Greater Glory of God” the Motto of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits): a Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola.

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Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time.”

Whatever you are, be a good one.”

Abraham Lincoln


All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; justice is what comes out of a courtroom.”

Laws should be like clothes. They should fit the people they are meant to serve.”

Clarence Darrow


Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.”

When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”

You can disagree without being disagreeable.”

RBG


The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”

Thurgood Marshall


Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.”

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

Gandhi


The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

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