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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

14.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

15.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

16.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

17.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

21.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

26.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

37.

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

Stirner, Max

38.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

39.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

42.

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

Gladstone, William E.

43.

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

44.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

45.

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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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

47.

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

Young, Brigham

48.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

49.

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

50.

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