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

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Puzo, Mario

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Nizer, Louis

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mellor, David

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

Mill, John Stuart