Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Epitaph

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Voltaire

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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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pope, Alexander

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Keats, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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