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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Froude, James A.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John

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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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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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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

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

Proverb

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