Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Irving, Washington

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Owen, Robert

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Keats, John

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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 only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.