Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Welles, Orson

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Becker, Ward

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Shakespeare, William

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Frost, Robert

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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

Mellor, David

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

Jones, Sir William

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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