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

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

Voltaire

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Epitaph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Gladstone, William E.

20.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Becker, Ward

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

30.

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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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 reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

33.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb

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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