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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Young, Brigham

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

10.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

12.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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.

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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Owen, Robert

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

30.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

34.

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

35.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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

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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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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

48.

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

Keats, John

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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

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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