Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Welles, Orson

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Becker, Ward

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Gladstone, William E.

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

30.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

31.

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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Stirner, Max

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

Froude, James A.

40.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Moore, Thomas

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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.