Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wilson, Earl

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Irving, Washington

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

44.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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