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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Talmud, The

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Epitaph

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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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

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

25.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Puzo, Mario

34.

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 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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora