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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Keats, John

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Puzo, Mario

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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.