Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Talmud, The

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mellor, David

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

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

10.

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 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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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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 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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Shakespeare, William

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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