Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Voltaire

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

Mellor, David

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

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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

Proverb

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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