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 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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

Proverb

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.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Keats, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Gladstone, William E.

19.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Younger, Evelle

23.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Epitaph

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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

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Owen, Robert

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

Voltaire

50.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet