Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Owen, Robert

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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 is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Moore, Thomas

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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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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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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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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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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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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.

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

Talmud, The

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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