Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Epitaph

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.

10.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

23.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Jones, Sir William

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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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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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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.

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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