Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Jones, Sir William

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

10.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

13.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

17.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

21.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Stirner, Max

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Talmud, The

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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.

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

Younger, Evelle

35.

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

36.

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

Mill, John Stuart

37.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

47.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.