Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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

Young, Brigham

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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.

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

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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 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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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

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Mellor, David

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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.

26.

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

Epitaph

27.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

28.

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

Welles, Orson

29.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Puzo, Mario

31.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

32.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Voltaire

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

Keats, John

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph