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

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.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

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

Epitaph

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Keats, John

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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

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Voltaire

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Talmud, The

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De