Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Becker, Ward

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Proverb

10.

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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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

12.

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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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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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

15.

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

Trapp, June L.

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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

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

22.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

30.

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

Nizer, Louis

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

33.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

34.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

Froude, James A.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Mill, John Stuart

46.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William