Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

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

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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

Epitaph

32.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

34.

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 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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

41.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence