Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Proverb

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

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

Epitaph

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

18.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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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 lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

43.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

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

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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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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.

Sutrakritanga

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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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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther