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

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

Keats, John

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

12.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

13.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

14.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

15.

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

16.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

17.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Proverb

19.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

20.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

23.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

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

Becker, Ward

25.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

26.

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

Engels, Friedrich

27.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

28.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

29.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

30.

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

Young, Brigham

31.

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

Mill, John Stuart

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

34.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb

42.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

44.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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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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

49.

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

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