Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Irving, Washington

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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