Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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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

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 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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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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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Trapp, June L.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius