Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Becker, Ward

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

Frost, Robert

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Younger, Evelle

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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Talmud, The

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

Keats, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.