Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

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.

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Epitaph

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

Jones, Sir William

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

10.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

11.

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

Keats, John

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Young, Brigham

21.

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

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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.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Welles, Orson

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

39.

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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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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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