Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Gladstone, William E.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Puzo, Mario

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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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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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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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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