Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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.

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

Keats, John

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Becker, Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Frost, Robert

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.