Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Becker, Ward

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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epitaph

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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 sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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