Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Owen, Robert

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

20.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Becker, Ward

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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