Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Epitaph

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Nizer, Louis

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