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

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Moore, Thomas

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

23.

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

Epitaph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

31.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Becker, Ward

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson, 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

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward