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

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Becker, Ward

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

Proverb

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Owen, Robert

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Welles, Orson

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Keats, John

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

Voltaire

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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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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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

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell