Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

- Engels, Friedrich

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Proverb

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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.

19.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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