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

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Puzo, Mario

13.

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

Becker, Ward

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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 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.

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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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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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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Welles, Orson

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 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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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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