Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Wilson, Earl

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stirner, Max

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Young, Brigham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Mellor, David

40.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

41.

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

Epitaph

42.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

45.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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