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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

12.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Proverb

19.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

23.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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

Becker, Ward

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

40.

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

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav