Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

2.

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

Keats, John

3.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

5.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

6.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

7.

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

8.

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

Frost, Robert

9.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

11.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

12.

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

13.

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

Engels, Friedrich

14.

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

Diderot, Denis

15.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

16.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

Becker, Ward

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Jones, Sir William

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Puzo, Mario

28.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

29.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

35.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

36.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

39.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

40.

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

41.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

42.

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

43.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

45.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Petty laws breed great crimes.