Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Keats, John

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Froude, James A.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis 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

10.

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.

11.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Younger, Evelle

16.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

30.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Irving, Washington

33.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

34.

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

Welles, Orson

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb