Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jones, Sir William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Mellor, David

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

Stirner, Max

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Welles, Orson

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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 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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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

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

Moore, Thomas

44.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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