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

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

Young, Brigham

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Puzo, Mario

10.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

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

Voltaire

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Mcilvanney, William

18.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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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 state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Epitaph

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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