Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

10.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Frost, Robert

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

Keats, John

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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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 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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

35.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Engels, Friedrich

44.

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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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