Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Epitaph

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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

Younger, Evelle

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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

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

Nizer, Louis

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Voltaire

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Becker, Ward