Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The good of the people is the greatest law.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epitaph

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

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

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Mellor, David

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Welles, Orson

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Froude, James A.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stirner, Max

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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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Becker, Ward