“A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But the guy who pretends he's enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake.”

“The worst type is the Big Politician who gives about half his time to covering up so that no one will know he's a thief. A hard-working crook can buy these birds by the dozens, but he hates them in his heart.”

“with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”

“A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.”

“Me?! What? I don’t know, unless I must go to the dictionary and learn what a crook is. I’ve never been a crook. … I'm saying I'm not a crook, I have never been a crook. I will never be a crook.”

“I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.”

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

“By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember”

“It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.”