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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Froude, James A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Proverb

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Keats, John

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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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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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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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.

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Gordimer, Nadine

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

45.

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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Proverb

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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.