Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mellor, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Proverb

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Stirner, Max

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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.