Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

18.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Becker, Ward

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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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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 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.

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

29.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

34.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keats, John

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle