Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Younger, Evelle

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

28.

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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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Frost, Robert

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Keats, John

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Irving, Washington

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

Welles, Orson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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.