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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Welles, Orson

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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 due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.