Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Moore, Thomas

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Becker, Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

16.

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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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

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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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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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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Puzo, Mario

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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.

33.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Welles, Orson

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.