Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about 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

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Epitaph

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

31.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Wilson, Earl

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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