I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.


Diary record of a comment made by Adams to John Marshall, Charles Francis Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (1875), p. 372

John Quincy Adams Quotes

I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing...

I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing...

I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing...

I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing...