Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Moore, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

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.

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

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

Moore, Thomas

10.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

15.

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

Jones, Sir William

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

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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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

20.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Owen, Robert

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

26.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

27.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Puzo, Mario

30.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

31.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

32.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

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

34.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

35.

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

Froude, James A.

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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

37.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 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

40.

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

42.

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

43.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

44.

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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

46.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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

Becker, Ward

49.

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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael