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

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

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

Becker, Ward

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frost, Robert

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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