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

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

Jones, Sir William

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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

Proverb

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Welles, Orson

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

18.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

23.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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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 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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Stirner, Max

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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.

47.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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