Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Sprecht, Robert D.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Wilson, Earl

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

18.

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.

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Froude, James A.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

25.

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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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

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Becker, Ward

43.

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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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Mellor, David