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

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

Keats, John

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Frost, Robert

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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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

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius