Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mellor, David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Welles, Orson

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jones, Franklin P.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

13.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

14.

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

15.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

16.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

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

20.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

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

Irving, Washington

27.

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

Epitaph

28.

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

Stirner, Max

29.

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

Proverb

30.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

31.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

32.

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Younger, Evelle

36.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Jones, Sir William

42.

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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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

44.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

49.

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

Keats, John

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius