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

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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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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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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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Becker, Ward

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

40.

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

Jones, Sir William

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

42.

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

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

Talmud, The

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