Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Proverb

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Epitaph

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

11.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Voltaire

25.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

26.

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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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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.

31.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

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

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin