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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Puzo, Mario

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

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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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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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 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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Frost, Robert

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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 helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Becker, Ward

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

Nizer, Louis

30.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

36.

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