Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mill, John Stuart

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Voltaire

14.

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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

17.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

18.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Keats, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Becker, Ward

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Stirner, Max

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

Epitaph

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

Young, Brigham

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.