Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

- Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Keats, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond