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

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Stirner, Max

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

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

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

16.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

17.

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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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moore, Thomas

30.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

31.

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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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.