Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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.

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mellor, David

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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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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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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Young, Brigham

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stirner, Max

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

Becker, Ward

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

Gladstone, William E.

32.

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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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.