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

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

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

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

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

Proverb

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Becker, Ward

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.