Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stirner, Max

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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 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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

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

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

Epitaph

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Shakespeare, William

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.