Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Hughes, Charles Evans

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Irving, Washington

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Epitaph

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Talmud, The

25.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Mellor, David

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Shakespeare, William

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.