Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Young, Brigham

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Puzo, Mario

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

Froude, James A.

16.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

19.

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

Irving, Washington

20.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

21.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

22.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Moore, Thomas

24.

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

25.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

26.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

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

35.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

41.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Gladstone, William E.

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

48.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

49.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

50.

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