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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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.

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.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stirner, Max

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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 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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.