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

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Nizer, Louis

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.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Mcilvanney, William

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Mellor, David

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

Proverb

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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Moore, Thomas

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Welles, Orson

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

Keats, John

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Epitaph

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