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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pomerantz, Hart

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Younger, Evelle

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

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

Jones, Sir William

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Frost, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mellor, David

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle