Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Becker, Ward

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stirner, Max

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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De