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

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

Moore, Thomas

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Welles, Orson

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

10.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

17.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

18.

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

19.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

20.

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

21.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

22.

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

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

24.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

25.

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

Mellor, David

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

29.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

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.

33.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

34.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

38.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

41.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

42.

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

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

45.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Froude, James A.

47.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

48.

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.

49.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

50.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle