Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Puzo, Mario

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mellor, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

14.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Jones, Sir 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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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Becker, Ward

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Welles, Orson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.