Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pope, Alexander

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

23.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Puzo, Mario

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.