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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Puzo, Mario

10.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Becker, Ward

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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

Talmud, The

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Proverb