Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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.

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Irving, Washington

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

33.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Mellor, David

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

Talmud, The

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