Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Keats, John

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

10.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

11.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

12.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

13.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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 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 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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Stirner, Max

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Irving, Washington

23.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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 laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Owen, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

32.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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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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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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.