Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Froude, James A.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pope, Alexander

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

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

Becker, Ward

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Irving, Washington

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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

Stirner, Max

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin