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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

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

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Keats, John

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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.