Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Stirner, Max

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Gladstone, William E.

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Epitaph

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

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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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

27.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

28.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Mcilvanney, William

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Becker, Ward

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

Frost, Robert

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

39.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

41.

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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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Owen, Robert