Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

30.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

38.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

42.

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max