Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Mellor, David

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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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 of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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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 often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jones, Sir William