Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jones, Sir William

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

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

18.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stirner, Max

33.

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

Young, Brigham

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Mellor, David

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.