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

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

10.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

17.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

42.

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

43.

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

Voltaire

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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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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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

Young, Brigham