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

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

Mellor, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Young, Brigham

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Mencken, H. L.

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Spanish