Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

10.

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

Younger, Evelle

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

16.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

Moore, Thomas

19.

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

Puzo, Mario

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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

24.

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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

31.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

35.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

41.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

43.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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