Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Owen, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Mcilvanney, William

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb

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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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.

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Sir William

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Frost, Robert

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Puzo, Mario

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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