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

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

Epitaph

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Becker, Ward

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

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

Stirner, Max

14.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

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

Nizer, Louis

23.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

29.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

30.

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

Puzo, Mario

31.

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

32.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

33.

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

34.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

35.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

36.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

40.

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

43.

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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

46.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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 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