
1970s, First Vice-Presidential address (1973)
Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587, 594 (1961).
Judicial opinions
1970s, First Vice-Presidential address (1973)
1782, reported in Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III (1845), Vol. II, p. 62.
1780s
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
Attributed to Bentham in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949) by Evan Esar, p. 29; no earlier sources for this have been located.
Disputed
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online
Attacking David Cameron, during his Labour Party Conference speech on 26 September 2006.
2000s
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
"Reminiscences of an American Loyalist" (first published serially in "Notes and Queries", 1874-)
“As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.”
The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889), L. R. 23 Q. B. 452.
“Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.”
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Great Muslims of undivided India, P.100