Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Irving, Washington

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Epitaph

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

Mcilvanney, William

19.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

21.

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

22.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

23.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Trapp, June L.

25.

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

26.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

27.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

33.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

34.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

42.

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

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Becker, Ward

45.

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

46.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

48.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

49.

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

50.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV