Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Epitaph

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.

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

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Moore, Thomas

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 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

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans