Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David