Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Stirner, Max

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mellor, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Owen, Robert

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Welles, Orson

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De