Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Johnson, Samuel

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Moore, Thomas

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Becker, Ward

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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 not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Petty laws breed great crimes.