Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Proverb

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Frost, Robert

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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 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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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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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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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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 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

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Stirner, Max

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Puzo, Mario

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

39.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Cervantes, Miguel De