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 said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Keats, John

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Becker, Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De