Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Mellor, David

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

14.

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

15.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

18.

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

Younger, Evelle

19.

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

20.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Engels, Friedrich

23.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

24.

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

26.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

29.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

31.

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

Gladstone, William E.

32.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

34.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

35.

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

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

38.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

43.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

44.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

45.

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

Keats, John

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

49.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

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