Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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

Gladstone, William E.

31.

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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Keats, John

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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