Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Diderot, Denis

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mellor, David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Pope, Alexander

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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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

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gladstone, William E.

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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.