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

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

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

Becker, Ward

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Owen, Robert

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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 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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Pope, Alexander

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jones, Sir William

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo