Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

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

Keats, John

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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

11.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Shakespeare, William

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

35.

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

Epitaph

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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