Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

11.

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

12.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

14.

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

Jones, Sir William

15.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

16.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

18.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

19.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Young, Brigham

23.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Puzo, Mario

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

31.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

32.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

37.

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Diderot, Denis

46.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel