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

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

Mellor, David

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Voltaire

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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 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.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham