Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Becker, Ward

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Keats, John

10.

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

11.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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 country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb

15.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

18.

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

19.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

20.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

21.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

22.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

25.

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

Moore, Thomas

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

30.

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

31.

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

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

34.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

Engels, Friedrich

36.

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

Epitaph

37.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

38.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

39.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

42.

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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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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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

45.

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

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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