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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Frost, Robert

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Mellor, David

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

Epitaph

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

31.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becker, Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

41.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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