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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Moore, Thomas

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

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

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

Owen, Robert

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Engels, Friedrich

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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

16.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

17.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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

Voltaire

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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