Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Stirner, Max

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

Talmud, The

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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