Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

22.

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

Epitaph

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

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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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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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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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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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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.

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

Mellor, David

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb