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

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

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

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

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

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

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Welles, Orson

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

Moore, Thomas

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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