Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Moore, Thomas

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

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Becker, Ward

10.

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

Froude, James A.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

15.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Epitaph

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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

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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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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pomerantz, Hart

27.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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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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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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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 is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

32.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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 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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.