Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Young, Brigham

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frost, Robert

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

Epitaph

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Froude, James A.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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.

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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