Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

- Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Keats, John

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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

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

18.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Frost, Robert

22.

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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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

24.

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 -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Moore, Thomas

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

34.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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 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.

38.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

44.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Welles, Orson

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias