Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Trapp, June L.

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

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

Keats, John

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

10.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

11.

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

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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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Frost, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gladstone, William E.

31.

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

Mellor, David

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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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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

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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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