Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

13.

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

14.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

Becker, Ward

18.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

19.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

23.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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.

28.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

29.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

30.

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

Puzo, Mario

31.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

32.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

37.

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

Trapp, June L.

38.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

44.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

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