Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Stirner, Max

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Proverb

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Welles, Orson

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Talmud, The

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Gladstone, William E.

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.