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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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

Puzo, Mario

15.

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

Froude, James A.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

25.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Irving, Washington

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

31.

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

Stirner, Max

32.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Epitaph

35.

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

Keats, John

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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

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

43.

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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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

47.

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

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.