Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

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

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

30.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

31.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Welles, Orson

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

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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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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

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

Mellor, David

40.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

41.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

42.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

43.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

45.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De