Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

10.

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

11.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

12.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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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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

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

Welles, Orson

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

20.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Wilson, Earl

27.

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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

31.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Mellor, David

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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.