Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Younger, Evelle

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Welles, Orson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Talmud, The

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

41.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Puzo, Mario

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph