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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

18.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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 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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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 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

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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.

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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