Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Young, Brigham

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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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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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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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.