Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Becker, Ward

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

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

Younger, Evelle

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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Stirner, Max

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Engels, Friedrich

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Welles, Orson

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

43.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

44.

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

Jones, Sir William

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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

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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 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 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.