Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Sade, Marquis De

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

Pope, Alexander

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Stirner, Max

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

19.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

27.

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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

29.

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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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

Epitaph

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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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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

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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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Frost, Robert

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.