Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Becker, Ward

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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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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.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Welles, Orson

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trapp, June L.

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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 like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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