Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Young, Brigham

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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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 reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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 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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Welles, Orson

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Frost, Robert

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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