Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

24.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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

Epitaph

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Becker, Ward

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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