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

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mellor, David

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Keats, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De