Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

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.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Owen, Robert

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

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.

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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 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 state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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