Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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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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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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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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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Becker, Ward

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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