Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Welles, Orson

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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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 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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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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Sade, Marquis De

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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