Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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 court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Young, Brigham

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Irving, Washington

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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Proverb

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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