Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Talmud, The

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Mill, John Stuart

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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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

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De