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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

Nizer, Louis

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

34.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

41.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De