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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Lieberman, Gerald 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.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Puzo, Mario

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

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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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.

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stirner, Max

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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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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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