Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

- Cam, Helen M.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Cam, Helen M.

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

Frost, Robert

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keats, John

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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 laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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 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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.