Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Nizer, Louis

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Keats, John

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

Frost, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

11.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

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

Owen, Robert

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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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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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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

28.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

29.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

30.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

Proverb

36.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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.

42.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.