Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Gladstone, William E.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Epitaph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Stirner, Max

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

Proverb

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

Becker, Ward

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

Irving, Washington

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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