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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Mellor, David

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

20.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

26.

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.

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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

28.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

29.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

39.

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

Welles, Orson

40.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

41.

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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moore, Thomas