Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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 only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Froude, James A.