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

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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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

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frost, Robert

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von