Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Epitaph

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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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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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Young, Brigham

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

Younger, Evelle

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Asoka

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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