Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mellor, David

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Puzo, Mario

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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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

27.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Gladstone, William E.

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