Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Mill, John Stuart

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

13.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

14.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

15.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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

21.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Keats, John

25.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

26.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Becker, Ward

30.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

33.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

34.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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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

41.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

42.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

43.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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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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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas