Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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

Mellor, David

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De