Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Puzo, Mario

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Engels, Friedrich

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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