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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
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Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

2.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

3.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Fielding, Henry

4.
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

5.
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
Saying

6.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

7.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
Lieberman, Gerald F.

8.
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
Mencken, H. L.

9.
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
Proverb, French

10.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Frost, Robert

11.
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
Saurin, Bernard Joseph

12.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Frost, Robert

13.
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
Froude, James A.

14.
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
Burke, Edmund

15.
A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Brougham, Lord Henry P.

16.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Montesquieu, Charles De

17.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Owen, Robert

18.
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
Keats, John

19.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Jefferson, Thomas

20.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Brecht, Bertolt

21.
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

22.
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

23.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

24.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Puzo, Mario

25.
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
Younger, Evelle

26.
Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
More, Thomas

27.
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

28.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Voltaire

30.
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

31.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
Bismarck, Otto Von

33.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Darrow, Clarence

34.
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

35.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Gandhi, Mahatma

36.
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

37.
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

38.
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
Chandler, Raymond

39.
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
Proverb, Spanish

40.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Cervantes, Miguel De

41.
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

42.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Engels, Friedrich

43.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
Syrus, Publilius

44.
Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
Proverb

45.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Lincoln, Abraham

46.
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
Proverb

47.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Mizner, Addison

48.
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.

49.
Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Pomerantz, Hart

50.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
La Bruyere, Jean De


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