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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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 and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mellor, David

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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