Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Puzo, Mario

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Mellor, David

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Becker, Ward

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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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.