Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

10.

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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

14.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

15.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

21.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

23.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

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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

33.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

34.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Epitaph

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

47.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.