Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Voltaire

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mellor, David

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Irving, Washington

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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