Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Proverb

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Keats, John

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

31.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Mille, Cecil B. De