Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The good of the people is the greatest law.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Stirner, Max

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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 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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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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 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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Moore, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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