Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Mellor, David

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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Irving, Washington

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Welles, Orson

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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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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcilvanney, William

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Proverb

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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