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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Jones, Sir William

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Keats, John

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Wilson, Earl

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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

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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Moore, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mellor, David

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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