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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Gladstone, William E.

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.

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Moore, Thomas

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