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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

10.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

12.

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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Keats, John

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

Stirner, Max

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

29.

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

Mellor, David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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